MobiHealthNews
Hospital pilots iPad video chats in lieu of ambulance rides
Aug,05,2014
by: Jonah Comstock
Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has begun a one-year pilot of a novel telemedicine program, one that will allow first responders to connect select patients to a doctor via an iPad rather than actually transporting them to the hospital.
“The benefits of telemedicine to the patient are innumerable, offering direct in-home access to a physician who can see them and talk to them,” Richard Gibbons, Director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, Pennsylvania Department of Health, said in a statement. “I’m very excited about the potential of this program and glad to see that it is happening in a community hospital such as Allegheny Valley.” Read More
AHRQ Innovations
Community-Based Health Coaches and Care Coordinators Reduce Readmissions
Aug,05,2014
by: Andrey Ostrovsky, MD
Supported by mobile technology, trained health coaches at Elder Services of Merrimack Valley (an Area Agency on Aging in Northeastern Massachusetts) visit recently discharged Medicare patients in their homes and monitor them via telephone to identify and address declines in health status that increase the risk of readmission. Administered in partnership with area hospitals, the 4-week program begins with an inhospital visit to determine the risk of readmission. Patients at medium or high risk for readmission receive an in-home visit within 48 hours of discharge and a weekly phone call for each of the next 3 weeks. During each encounter, the coach uses a tablet-based application that provides suggested questions written in lay language based on the patient's diagnoses, treatment, and overall risk profile. If the answers indicate a decline in health status, the system sends a real-time alert to a nurse care coordinator, who subsequently uses a different component of the software to help the patient and coach address the issue within 24 hours, including arranging for any needed services. The use of health coaches supported by the tablet-based software significantly reduced readmissions among at-risk Medicare patients, as compared with use of health coaches without the software. This reduction generated substantial cost savings for partner hospitals and the health care system as a whole. Read More
Modern Healthcare
Stage 2 attestations inch upward, latest CMS data indicate
Aug,06,2014
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Hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals are inching closer to upgrading their electronic health-record systems, but significant progress remains limited to a small handful of providers, the latest CMS data show.
As of Aug. 1, 78 hospitals have attested to meeting the more stringent EHR Stage 2 requirements. That's just 24% of the 322 hospitals that have already attested for the 2014 reporting year, which began for them Oct. 1, 2013. The data was part of a CMS Data Review slide presentation given Wednesday to the federally chartered Health Information Technology Policy Committee. On the provider side, 1,898 physicians and other eligible professionals have attested to Stage 2. That’s 35% of the 5,365 physicians and other EPs who have attested during their payment period, which began Jan. 1, 2014. Read More
As of Aug. 1, 78 hospitals have attested to meeting the more stringent EHR Stage 2 requirements. That's just 24% of the 322 hospitals that have already attested for the 2014 reporting year, which began for them Oct. 1, 2013. The data was part of a CMS Data Review slide presentation given Wednesday to the federally chartered Health Information Technology Policy Committee. On the provider side, 1,898 physicians and other eligible professionals have attested to Stage 2. That’s 35% of the 5,365 physicians and other EPs who have attested during their payment period, which began Jan. 1, 2014. Read More
Fierce Health IT
The rise of nurses in health IT
Aug,04,2014
by:Katie Dvorak
From chief nursing informatics officers to chief information officers, nurses increasingly are taking on new leadership roles in health IT and having a major impact on healthcare innovation and delivery. For instance, nurse informatics are vital to information system development, implementation and optimization, according to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2014 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, released in February. More than 70 percent of the survey's respondents hold a title that specifies informatics, and interest in additional training within the field is also shown to be on the rise. Read More
Wirehead Technology Healthcare POP
Healthcare Providers,
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