Is ICD-10 More Important Than Meaningful Use?
Advisory Board health IT boss Dave Garets tells CIOs to make ICD-10 compliance their top priority because more money is at stake.
Digital Friday: Black Woman Develops Mobile App for people with Kidney Disease
A new mobile app, RENAL TRKRR, puts your personal medical information, including blood test results, medications, and even diet, at your fingertips. In this interview, the inventor shares about her diagnosis and motivation for developing a mobile app.
New Report Echoes Call for National EHR Safety Board
A new report published in the Journal of Patient Safety advocates creation of an independent national board to monitor and improve the safety of electronic health records. Among other duties, the board would have the power to implement unannounced, randomly scheduled, on-site EHR safety inspections.
EHRs Are Inevitable, Experts Say
Experts at a summit this month hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) say that electronic health records will become the norm, sooner than later, because consumers are demanding them.
Charts Of The Day: Kidney Shortage Worsens Yearly
Charts showing up-to-date data on the kidney situation emphasizes how the situation of those with renal failure waiting desperately to receive a kidney continues to worsen every year.
Doc Eyes Changes in Dialysis Treatment
Dismayed by the high death rate of patients on kidney dialysis in the United States, a Long Island doctor is suggesting people in this country might fare better — and live longer — if they spent more time each week getting the treatments.
Costs Prompting Sicker Patients to Avoid Medical Care
Physicians are urged to talk about cost when discussing care options and develop ways to attract patients who should come in but don’t.
Health Care Quality Measures Take on the Big Picture
The quality measurement community is beginning to look at a much wider set of health care indicators.
How Learning to Cook Is Helping Doctors Give Nutritional Advice
Programs in a handful of medical settings are teaching how healthy foods actually can be tasty and how to get patients to change their eating habits.
Nonpunitive Method Improves Medical Error Reporting
A new study shows that medical error reporting in an academic pediatric ambulatory practice can be improved by a voluntary, nonpunitive, error-reporting system.
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