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Medical home achievement the goal of athenahealth 'accelerator program'
athenahealth has launched an "accelerator program" for its cloud-based electronic health record to help physicians achieve recognition as patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). athenahealth is the
EHR use included in new NCQA medical home standards
Meaningful use provisions are embedded throughout the new 2011 evaluation standards for patient-centered medical homes issued this week by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) to
Deloitte: EMRs pricey, but necessary for patient-centered medical home
Though it may be pricey and encounter cultural resistance, an EMR and related health IT is a necessary investment for organizations wishing to follow the patient-centered medical home model, suggests
EHR unleashes clinical and financial success at Geisinger, CEO says
Geisinger Health System CEO Dr. Glenn D. Steele Jr. attributes much of the organization's financial and clinical success to a well-implemented EHR. "What helps make Geisinger's innovations possible
Cisco exec: Home monitoring needs standards, financial incentives
We report elsewhere in today's newsletter that the Continua Health Alliance is creating a library of source code to connect wireless medical devices with smartphones . Such developments are welcome in
SPOTLIGHT: Telemed, remote monitoring, robotics and social media for health reform
In a commentary for Hospitals & Health Networks, Dr. Charles J. Shanley, associate CMO for Beaumont Hospitals in Michigan, and David Ellis, corporate director of planning and future studies at
Study: Remote health monitoring growing, but restrained by payment policies
Remote health management represents just 1.4 percent of the market for home health monitoring in the U.S., but it's expected to double from $1.8 billion in 2007 to $3.6 billion in 2012, representing
EMRs, PHRs, HIE necessary to support patient-centered medical home
Without EMRs, PHRs and health information exchange, the patient-centered medical home may not be bound to fail, but it certainly is difficult to establish and maintain. "IT is really the key to
34 providers in Pacific Northwest receive EMR grants
A public-private partnership in the Pacific Northwest has chosen 34 mostly small and rural healthcare providers to receive up to $20,000 each to help purchase EMRs and other health IT. Many of the
Want technology adoption? Make it easy to use
I've been immersed in cutting-edge technology and stories about the same for the past day and a half while at the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound conference in Seattle, a city that is a hotbed of
