Modern Healthcare.com
July,13, 2012
By: Jessica Zigmond
The number of uninsured women in America rose by more than 30% between 2000 and 2010, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report that studies differences in healthcare costs for women in the U.S. and 10 other countries. In 2010, 20% of U.S. women, or about 18.7 million females between the ages of 19 and 64, were uninsured, compared with 15%, or about 12.8 million in 2000. U.S. women reported they have problems paying medical bills at double the rate of women in other countries. Meanwhile, 26% of U.S. women had medical bill problems, compared with 13% in Australia, 12% in France and 4% in Germany. The report, Oceans Apart: The Higher Health Costs of Women in the U.S. Compared to Other Nations and How Reform is Helping, also examines healthcare and costs for women in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Read Complete Article
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Personal Health Records Could Spur Patients To Obtain Preventive Care
July,13,2012
Patients who use an interactive personal health record tool are more likely to obtain certain preventive services than patients without access to the PHR tool, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine, Reuters reports (Norton, Reuters, 7/12).
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For the study, researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University's Cancer Prevention and Control Program conducted a 16-month clinical trial involving 4,500 patients at eight primary care practices (Hall, FierceHealthIT, 7/11). Patients were randomly assigned to a control group that received standard care or an intervention group that had access to an interactive PHR.
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CIO Says Mobile Device Security Critical
By:Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
July,13,2012
John Halamka, M.D., one of the nation's leading healthcare CIOs, says a top compliance project for this summer is improving mobile device security at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Halamka and his team have launched an 18-month effort designed to tackle key privacy and security issues to comply with state and federal regulations. "Security is the highest area of growth of my operating budget and will eat up a third of my capital budget," he says. "It's a very significant resource area." Beth Israel Deaconess includes a 631-bed medical center and a health system with 3,000 affiliated physicians, 14,000 employees and several affiliated Boston-area hospitals serving 2 million patients in Massachusetts.
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AHIMA: Look at legal ramifications of mobile health information
July, 09, 2012
By: Neil Versel
In developing policies for managing data handled by and stored on mobile devices, healthcare organizations should look beyond privacy and security and consider the legal ramifications of mobile health information, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) says. “While much has been written stressing how extremely important security and privacy issues are in the use of mobile health technology, a question much less explored is how health information that is captured on mobile devices relates to the management of the health record,” Lydia Washington, a director of practice management at AHIMA, writes in the July issue of the Journal of AHIMA.
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