October 26, 2012
According to a report produced by a Loma Linda University Medical Center researcher, and posted on the Annals of Emergency Medicine website, a number of intubated emergency patients within a federal database were listed as both dead and alive. The report calls into the data quality of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), which is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
October 26, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the final Clinical Quality Measures (CQMS) for 2014 on its website, the government agency reported. CQMs will change in 2014 for providers, and those that are eligible for meaningful use, either Stage 1 or Stage 2, will have included the new criteria in their EHRs, CMS says.
October 26, 2012
The National Institutes of Health, in partnership with a third-party vendor, PatientCrossroads, has established a Down syndrome patient registry which will aim to assemble contacts and information sharing among families, patients, researchers and parent groups. According to a press release announcing the new registry, it will allow people with Down syndrome or their family members to enter their contact information and health history in what the institute says is an online, secure, confidential database.
October 25, 2012
The National Proactive Surveillance Network, the Ceders-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and Johns Hopkins are jointly launching what they are calling the world's first online medical database designed to help men track the progression of their prostate cancer while avoiding complications from overtreatment. According to the group, the database portal will allow men with slow-growing forms of the disease to track it in a secure, interactive environment.
October 25, 2012
According to new research from the Orem, Utah-based research firm, KLAS, healthcare providers are increasingly adopting mobile devices to access patient information, even though they are expressing data security concerns. The research from KLAS, titled Mobile Applications: Can Enterprise Vendors Keep Up?, looked at various issues surrounding the mobile health (mHealth) trend in the industry, using the insights of more than 100 providers.
October 25, 2012
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA-ACMPE) has revealed a ?Patient Satisfaction Benchmarking Tool,? with the San Diego-based patient satisfaction consultant and software vendor, SullivanLuallinGroup. MGMA, which revealed the tool at its annual conference this week, says the tool will aim to help medical group practices put together an accurate assessment of their current patient satisfaction and look for ways to improve on it.
October 24, 2012
Citing a report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), members of the House and Ways Committee charged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for failing to protect Medicare beneficiaries who have their Social Security Number (SSN) on their Medicare ID cards from identity theft.
October 24, 2012
Johns Hopkins Medicine, a large integrated healthcare provider based in Baltimore, has extended its agreement with the Franklin, Tenn.-based clinical documentation provider, M*Modal, announcing it will implement M*Modal?s Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology across all of its health facilities, while also bringing on new transcription services.
October 24, 2012
According to a new research report from the Weymouth, Mass.-based healthcare management consulting firm Beacon Partners, most healthcare executives are dissatisfied with how the data they are receiving from clinical IT systems is being used to measure the value brought to their organization.
October 23, 2012
A 35-year-old Florida man, Dale Munroe, has pleaded guilty to accessing more than 760,000 patient records from 2009-11, and selling them to the agent of a medical center, chiropractic clinics, and an injury hotline, the Orlando Sentinel is reporting. According to the Sentinel, Munroe plead guilty to an Orlando court on one count of conspiracy and one count of wrongful disclosure of health information., admitting he committed the crime when he was an emergency department employee at Florida?s Celebration Hospital, a 112-bed acute care facility.
October 23, 2012
A new report from the Reston, Va.-based medical imaging socioeconomic research organization, the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, found that in hospitals across the United States, the average length-of-stay has increased at the same time as use of medical imaging scans has declined. The report?s authors do not outright say the two are connected, but suggest more research be done to ?potential negative impact of government and private insurer imaging reductions on overall medical costs and patient safety.?
October 23, 2012
DataMotion, a Morristown, N.J.-based provider of cloud data delivery solutions, has announced the arrival of new software which aims to allow healthcare industry organizations to integrate with the Direct Project. The Direct Project, created as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network, was created to specify a simple, secure, scalable, standards-based way for providers to send encrypted health information directly to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.
October 22, 2012
According to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, at-risk teenagers are interested in obtaining and viewing their online health information. Researchers from the study, which was published in a recent issue of Pediatrics, spoke with 79 incarcerated teens who received treatment at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and 90 percent were enthusiastic about receiving their health information online.
October 22, 2012
According to a new research data from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), the ?better-performing medical practices? are the ones that have focused specifically on patient satisfaction, profitability and cost management; productivity, capacity and staffing; and accounts receivable (A/R) and collections. The report, Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups: 2012 Report Based on 2011 Data, looked at data from 348 better-performing groups that responded to the MGMA 2012 Cost Survey.
October 22, 2012
According to research from the Austin, Texas-based consulting firm, Mercom Capital Group, venture capital funding grew in healthcare IT with $194 million going into 37 deals in Q3 2012. This continues an upward trend that has been ongoing for five straight quarters, Mercom notes. Health Information Management (HIM) companies received the most funding as a technology group with $101 million in 20 deals, followed by Mobile Health companies with $39 million in seven deals and Social Health Network companies with $26 million in four deals.
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