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NewsHealth IT key to HealthAmerica medical home pilot
Preferred Primary Care Physicians, a 32-doctor group in the Pittsburgh area, is piloting an advanced medical home model with assistance from HealthAmerica, a subsidiary of Coventry Health Care. Read more...
Consensus report uniting ACOs and medical homes has health IT implications
A new consensus report on how to reform the healthcare delivery system has some important implications for health IT. The report, entitled Better to Best: Value Driving Elements of the Patient Read more...
New medical home accreditation guidelines emphasize health IT
Four medical societies have released a new set of guidelines for organizations accrediting patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) that are more specific about health IT considerations than their Read more...
AHRQ: Practices need more motivation to track, improve population health
Go back to the 2004 strategic plan offered by Dr. David Brailer, the first national coordinator for health IT, and you'll find that improving population health was one of the four major goals of a Read more...
Patients who email their doctors are healthier, Kaiser study finds
Patients who take advantage of secure patient-physician email options offered by their doctor are more likely to experience healthy outcomes, according to a recent study published in the journal Read more...
Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics, social media represent true health reform
Finally, someone said it. "[P]ublic discourse on health reform is almost entirely focused on the whole [the unsustainable costs and inadequate health outcomes] at the expense of a focus on the parts Read more...
U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption
The Commonwealth Fund's annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobody's surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe Read more...
Report: Health IT central to chronic disease management
Health IT isn't just useful in managing chronically-ill patients, it's actually critical to getting the job done right, according to a new report from a leading analyst firm. Using relevant health IT Read more...
NQF endorses national technology standards
The National Quality Forum has endorsed a group of nine health IT standards under its new national voluntary consensus program. The standards address electronic prescribing, EMR interoperability, Read more...
VT funds EMR adoption with health plan tax
In a move which may be the first of its kind in the country, Vermont legislators have created a trust--funded by a quarterly tax on health plans--which will provide support for healthcare providers Read more...
| Press ReleasesThe Joint Commission to Launch Primary Care Home Option in 2011(OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. - September 7, 2010) Beginning in July 2011, The Joint Commission will expand the process of accrediting ambulatory health care organizations to those who are also interested Read more >> |
