In an effort to educate health-care leaders about providing a well-designed, consumer-friendly health plan comparison tool as part of the health insurance Exchanges being developed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Robert Krughoff, president of nonprofit Consumers' CHECKBOOK, recently spoke at the World Health Congress on Health Insurance Exchanges and demonstrated key features of a successful plan comparison tool.
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Hennepin County Medical Center, a 477-bed hospital in downtown Minneapolis, is ready to display its meaningful use readiness to the world. And Chief Medical Information Officer Kevin Larson says the hospital wouldn’t be ready if it hadn’t embraced mobile health.
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Proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mobile health regulations showed up in the Federal Register in late July. A week later at the World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth, stakeholders debated if -- and how much -- they would stifle development.
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Should you buy your medical staff smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices, or let them use their own devices for work? It's a dilemma most CIOs are facing now, with little long-term experience to guide them.
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Cleveland Clinic is betting that its physicians, IT staff and others have some great ideas for apps and other mobile products. So much so, officials there have created a mobile "governance committee" of physicians, marketers, administrators, registered nurses and IT reps.
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Mobile technology, and its ability to provide rapid access to medical information, can be both good and bad for providers' medical liability risk. That's the upshot of Harvard health law professor Michelle Mello's presentation at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth from Thursday.
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