Electronic Medical Records News

Verizon unveils Internet-based health information network

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:04:47 +0000

The platform will allow the exchange of data regardless of geographic location and technology platforms.
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Medicaid pay commission to begin work in September

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:04:46 +0000

MACPAC’s first executive director is a former MedPAC leader.
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InteractiveMD Adds Video to EMRs Within its Telehealth Offerin

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:03:02 +0000

InteractiveMD is expanding its remote patient monitoring system with a video component. Now, Telemedicine Consulting Network doctors will examine patients on camera around the clock. – InteractiveMD, a
telehealth provider, is preparing to launch a video conferencing upgrade to its
24-hour telemedicine platform on Aug. 18 that allows doctors to conduct live
video examinations remotely and on demand.
InteractiveMD, a unit of health care solutions company iCan Group, currently
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Automated infection surveillance can aid prevention

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:46:30 +0000

The monitoring systems free up staff time to focus on preventive services.
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Organized medicine should take leadership role in quality, study says

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:46:29 +0000

Focus groups in 13 states approve of the AMA’s work on developing clinical quality measures.
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IBM, Aetna Join for New Cloud-Based Health Care Support System

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:25:56 +0000

Collaborative Care gathers and presents patients’ health data from multiple sources to create a detailed, up-to-date record that can be updated in real time to support clinical and emergency health care decisions. – IBM said Aug. 5 that it has joined up with the Aetna insurance company’s health IT division, ActiveHealth Management, to launch a new cloud-based patient-records service for physicians and extended-care providers.

Dubbed Collaborative Care, the service gathers and presents patients’ health data f…
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Angel Unified IVR Cloud Service Gets Health Care on the Phone

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:58:48 +0000

With its Customer Experience Platform, Angel aims to authenticate phone conversations for doctors, patients and pharmaceutical sales reps using voice biometrics. The SAAS service is used by pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca, companies in the financial industry such as Bank of America and retail chains such as Barnes & Noble and Best Buy. – Angel, a provider of on-demand, cloud-based customer-engagement services, introduced its Angel 4 Customer Experience Platform for call centers featuring unified multichannel/multimodal communication options such as SMS, chat, e-mail, voice biometrics and mobile management.
The SAAS (software as a s…
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Fraud crackdown mandated under new law

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:10:08 +0000

The president challenges federal agencies to reduce improper payments by $50 billion by 2012, including cutting improper Medicare fee-for-service pay in half.
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Solutions for “alarm fatigue” are complex

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:10:08 +0000

n Customizing default settings and properly maintaining batteries are among ways to combat staff becoming desensitized by thousands of alerts. A long-term plan also is important.
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Preauthorization denials remain under investigation in Delaware

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:10:08 +0000

Meanwhile, a U.S. Senate committee also is looking into the issue.
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