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Home telemonitoring needs health reform, more research to become widespread
Several recent reports have predicted a rapid rise in the use of remote patient monitoring. So far, however, it appears that only a small minority of consumers are using these applications and that
HIEs discover new ways to use 'Direct Project' messaging protocol
Health information exchanges are finding their own ways to use the Direct Project standards to achieve their quality and coordination objectives, panelists revealed in a discussion of the
Hospitals ask OMB to revise 'onerous' tax form
Various hospitals groups are grumbling about changes to the Schedule H tax form as part of the Affordable Care Act, reported AHA News Now. According to letters sent to the Office of Management and
VA creating tablet-based triage system for its ERs
The Veteran Health Administration is continuing its move to tablet-based clinical practice with new emergency room triage software the agency says will debut in August. As part of its VA Employee
VHA tests virtual patient platform to hone clinical skills
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has selected Decision Simulation's DecisionSim as its "virtual patient platform" to help VHA providers improve their clinical decision making skills. The
Staking out the vendors at ANI
Come for the networking. Stay for the tchotkes. That was the takeaway at the HFMA/ANI's rambling vendor floor, where there were enough bill collectors, software vendors, and revenue enhancement
Supply cost savings part 2: Putting the final pieces in place
Last week David Markoski, senior vice president of Supply Chain Performance Services at Irving, Texas-based VHA Inc., shared two of four steps to setting up a process to achieve optimal savings in
Find the cost-savings lurking in your supply chain
In the past few years, most hospitals' supply budgets have already undergone one or two rounds of cost-cutting. However, many hospitals are, once again, taking out the knives as they prepare to deal
