Featured Report: How tech's giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don't know it yet

How tech's giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don't know it yet ZD Net Oct,06, 2013 by: Steve Ranger It's no secret that the PC market is in a tailspin - worldwide shipments are expected to drop 10 percent this year. And it's hard to see how things are going to get much better, as the old PC players are consistently outmanoeuvred by rivals with a totally different business model, and better designed, cheaper devices - and who, having dominated the consumer market, now want to sweep up the enterprise market too. Read More

AT&T expects to launch first VoLTE smartphone this year   Fierce Wireless Oct,08,2013 by:Phil Goldstein Share Tools Comment Print Contact Author Reprint HOLLYWOOD BEACH, Fla.--AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) expects to launch its first Voice over LTE smartphone by the end of the year as a prelude to a wider VoLTE deployment in 2014, according to a senior AT&T executive. Krish Prabhu, the president of AT&T Labs, said during a keynote appearance here at the PCIA wireless infrastructure conference that "I do believe there might be a VoLTE-compliant device for the holidays this year." He said AT&T is conducting network upgrade testing for VoLTE right now and that the technology will generally appear in the network next year. He said VoLTE will power an HD voice experience for customers who are using VoLTE handsets at both ends of calls. Read More

What's driving the future of the connected car? Fierce Mobile IT Oct,03,2013 By:Jason Ankeny Wireless carrier executives are all revved up by the connected car opportunity. AT&T (NYSE:T) CEO Randall Stephenson has been particularly vocal about the possibilities: "The way we think about the car is that it's just a big smartphone on wheels," Stephenson said earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. "The connected car will become just as routine as people carrying a smartphone." Read More

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Featured Report:Docs embracing HIE while replacing EHRs

Cleveland Clinic Expanding Patient EHR Access

Healthcare Data Management June,07,2013 Joseph Goedert The Cleveland Clinic sometime in 2014 will make nearly all information in a patient’s electronic health record available via its Epic MyChart patient Web portal. Patients currently can access via the portal their after-visit summary, medication and allergy lists, immunizations, diagnostic images and preventive care information. This month, the clinic will start automatically sending pathology reports to MyChart accounts after users have learned of the results from a physician. Beyond this information, patients wanting more of their record must contact the hospital to get hard copies--thumb drives or paper--of the EHR. Read Report

EHR trade group issues code of conduct to improve patient safety

Modern Healthcare.com June,11,2013 by:Joseph Conn Getting out front of possible federal regulation of their industry and its products, a trade group representing more than 40 developers of electronic health-record systems issued an EHR Developer Code of Conduct. By signing on, vendors would commit to dropping “gag clauses” that hinder patient-safety reporting and promise the smooth transfer of data from their products to another vendor's. The Electronic Health Record Association, an affiliate of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, released the nine-page document Tuesday at a Washington news conference. Read More

EHR trade group issues code of conduct to improve patient safety

Modern Healthcare.com June,11,2013 by:Joseph Conn Getting out front of possible federal regulation of their industry and its products, a trade group representing more than 40 developers of electronic health-record systems issued an EHR Developer Code of Conduct. By signing on, vendors would commit to dropping “gag clauses” that hinder patient-safety reporting and promise the smooth transfer of data from their products to another vendor's. The Electronic Health Record Association, an affiliate of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, released the nine-page document Tuesday at a Washington news conference. Read More

Featured Report:Docs embracing HIE while replacing EHRs

Docs embracing HIE while replacing EHRs

HIE Watch June,13,2013 by:Mike Milliard More than a third of physician practices plan to purchase, replace or upgrade ambulatory EHR systems, according to HIMSS Analytics' newest Ambulatory Electronic Health Record & Practice Management Study. Meanwhile, nearly half of physician groups say they'll join an HIE Read More

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EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

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Featured Report: Nearly half of EPs have received EHR payments

This Week's Healthcare News
iHealthBeat
Consumer Coalitions Comment on Federal Data Exchange Efforts
May,03,2013
by:+Staff
The Campaign for Better Care and the Consumer Partnership for eHealth have submitted joint comments responding to a request for information on how the federal government could advance interoperability and health data exchange efforts, Health Data Management reports.
Together, the two coalitions represent more than 150 consumer and patient advocacy groups (Goedert, Health Data Management, 5/2).
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HealthDataManagement
Report: How to Save $74B in Medicaid Drug Costs
May,02,2013
by:+Joseph Goedert
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association sponsored the study, which consulting firm The Menges Group conducted. Savings in the report would total $43 billion to the federal government and $31.4 billion to states.
The savings would include $23.5 billion by increasing use of generic drugs, $12.5 billion by negotiating market-based pharmacy dispensing fees, $33.4 billion by using limited pharmacy networks, $2.7 billion by encouraging use of more affordable preferred brands, and $2.3 billion from reducing drug diversion, polypharmacy (patients prescribed too many medications with too little coordination), fraud and waste.
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TimesNewsNet
The new house call: Tech changes way doctors, patients communicate
May,02, 2013
by:+Leigh Ann Laube
Dr. Steven Adkins was in Target on a Saturday night when his cell phone rang. One of his patients had finally broken out in the rash that Adkins was expecting. The patient sent a photo of the rash to Adkins, he diagnosed her with shingles and called in a prescription for her.
For Adkins, a family medicine provider at Holston Medical Group’s Weber City, Va., office, electronic communication like this can be an appropriate way to deal with established patients.
Adkins doesn’t routinely give his cell phone number and e-mail address to his patients, but a second patient did use a cell phone to forward a photo of a foot wound.
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Featured Report: Nearly half of EPs have received EHR payments
ModernHealthcare
May,01, 2013
by:+Joseph Conn
More than a quarter million physicians and other professionals eligible for the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment programs have received payments, according to the latest government data.
In its monthly update about the programs (PDF), the CMS reports that through March, a total of 255,772 so-called “eligible professionals,” or EPs, have been paid—160,890, or 63% of them so far, through the federally administered Medicare EHR incentive payment program, 83,765, or 33%, through state-run Medicaid programs; and 11,117, or 4%, through the federal Medicare Advantage program.
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Hello Businesses Owner,

I am writing to you because our changing health care system will have a profound effect on all of us. Now that the election is over and the Supreme Court has ruled, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is not going away. It will not be repealed and it is up to us to make sure it will work for small businesses and individuals as it was intended to do.

That’s why I joined the Campaign for Better Health Care’s newly created Small Business Health Care Consortium (SBHCC). This consortium views the needs of small businesses and their employees as a top priority.

And, as a member of the Steering Committee of the SBHCC I am personally inviting you to join our network of small businesses who know that only through our collective voices that will assure that the Affordable Care Act live up to its goal of making healthcare affordable for all.

Discussions around health reform have been confusing and, sometimes, even misleading. It is the goal of the SBHCC to provide factual information about the changes that are already happening and those coming in the near future. The SBHCC discusses the benefits and opportunities of the ACA and what Illinois small businesses need to do to make sure this law will benefit them.

Many key components of the ACA are national in nature. For instance, small businesses currently providing health insurance to their employees could be eligible for a 35% tax credit. And, while employers with fewer than 50 full time employees are not required to provide health insurance, their employees can take advantage of the ACA’s benefits.

Other components will be implemented at the State level and these decisions will either enhance small businesses or provide another hurdle. One important component is that all states must implement a health insurance exchange (marketplace). These exchanges will include a rate review process with defined, easy to understand plans to consider and review side-by-side.

As small business owners we share many of the same, serious business challenges. It is my hope that you and your small business peers do want to learn more about the ACA. Let’s take this opportunity to act collectively to get control of health insurance costs and improve access to coverage. The opportunity to create positive change is now. It is about fairness and choices for small businesses. To that end I like for you to hear my own personal story about how the new healthcare law will effect me.

Please go to this link at Healthcare.gov to see my story Watch My Story

Then Join the SBHCC do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or thoughts. I may be reached at wireheadtec@gmail.com or Wirehead Technology

Sincerely,
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CIO
Wirehead Technology
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