10 April 2014
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Becker's Hospital Review - The Daily Beat Blog
Employers have been largely responsible for the healthcare coverage of Americans since World War II, when employers starting paying for healthcare coverage as a means of supplementing workers beyond wage limits.
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"EHRs weren't designed to accumulate the kind of data we need for population health or bundled payments, so we've got some work to do there," Joseph Pleasant, CIO of Premier Inc., said in a session at the World Health Care Congress. As you start to get ...
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The future of health information technology may lie in the hands of patients. Panelists at the World Health Congress on Tuesday hashed out the challenges of disjointed health information and predicted what form the elusive universal health record will take — and if that's up to patients.
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The availability of employer-sponsored insurance has fallen by about 10% over the past decade, which has spurred an increase in the overall number of Americans without health insurance, according to a report released today.
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Corporate wellness programs have become a cause celebre of the cost-saving era in healthcare. Everyone has started using employee wellness plans and there are plenty of ways to try them.
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This week's 10th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C., saw a lively discussion April 9 involving a panel of experts on innovation, including Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Joe Pleasant Jr., senior vice president and CIO of the Premier health alliance.
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Is healthcare at its Wal-Mart moment?
Barry Mason thinks so. IBM’s vice president of global healthcare payers sees an entire industry – insurance companies, hospitals, medical devices, pharma and beyond – getting behind concepts like convergence with more than just words.
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Even before health care reform legislation has been formally introduced on Capitol Hill, skirmishes have broken out regarding proposals to establish a government-sponsored insurance program, tax health benefits and mandate employer coverage.
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More than any other single issue in the health reform debate, the creation of a public insurance option is most likely to keep health plan executives lying awake at night. Opponents of a public option contend that such an entity would have too many advantages over private insurers and worry that it could be the first step toward a single-payer health system. But President Obama's top health policy advisor insists that such an entity could compete with private health plans on a level playing field.
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The cost of innovative medicines will rise, and the only solution for healthcare system is the patient-centered health care, where patients have greater responsibility for their own health, was said in Brussels at the 5th World Health Care Congress Europe.
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While scientists have made tremendous discoveries in the field of personalized medicine, we are only beginning to realize its promise, said participants in a World Health Care Congress session on personalized medicine.
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As health plans search for ways to reach and motivate members to become more engaged in their health, they say that one lesson stands out loud and clear: In today's world, people won't come to you on your terms. Health plans that reach out to their members on their terms using tools that reach them wherever they happen to be with tailored, focused messages stand the best chance of success. And one effective way to do this is with cell phones and other mobile devices.
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Results from trials of a patient-centered medical home suggest that
such arrangements result in cost savings and reduced hospital readmissions, according to Dr. Barbara Walters, senior medical director of southern New Hampshire community group practices at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock health care system.
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Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a USB-based ultrasound probe that can connect to a smartphone, creating a low-cost ultrasound imaging platform. Once connected to a smartphone, the probe acts like any other ultrasound device, serving as an imaging tool for kidney, liver, eye and uterine screenings and biopsies.
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Top federal health information technology (IT) officials are predicting that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) will help push development and adoption of health IT and interconnectivity to dramatically new levels over the coming years. NCI's pioneering cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid® (caBIG®) 25 project—and its current and prospective partners in the cancer research community—are likely to benefit substantially from the infusion of federal funding and new policies fostering these national economic recovery goals.
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