HIPAA Notice Deadline NearsSaturday marks the three-year anniversary of the deadline for small health plans to start providing individuals with a privacy rights notice, which is significant because health plans must remind individuals about the availability of the notice every three years.
... Comments (0)Source: BenefitsNextPosted: Thursday, April 12, 2007Hospitals Need Patience When Investing in Health Information TechnologyMore than 60 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have made significant enough investments in information technology to begin seeing reductions in operating costs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com/healthcare) which has published a groundbreaking report on the relationship between health IT investment and hospital operating performance.
... Comments (0)Source: DOTmed.com, USPosted: Thursday, April 12, 2007NHS patient choice: New website will extend choice to all communities says HewitDepartment of Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today announced a package of measures aimed to help patients in the most disadvantaged communities use web-delivered e-Government services to make choices about their healthcare and empower them to shape services around their needs and experience.
... Comments (0)Source: PublicTechnology.net, UKPosted: Thursday, April 12, 2007UnitedHealth Web site speeds claim submissionsUnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurance company, announced yesterday that it has unveiled a Web site that allows doctors' offices to get claims approval within seconds rather than the weeks it sometimes takes to settle claims.
... Comments (0)Source: White Plains Journal News, USPosted: Thursday, April 12, 2007Telemedicine helps children's hospitals communicate nationwideDespite a distance of more than 1,000 miles, staff at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee and St Joseph's Children's Hospital in New Jersey were able to simultaneously review diagnostic images from patients at the joint launch of the hospitals' new telemedicine equipment, making them the first two medical institutions in the US to employ this form of high-definition technology.
... Comments (0)Source: Computer Business Review, UKPosted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007Gaps exist between e-prescribing tools and doc useSizable gaps exist between the potential benefits of electronic-prescribing tools and physicians' actual use of commercial e-prescribing products, and this is at least partly due to products lacking advanced features or physicians not using them because of external implementation hurdles or a perception that these features didn't have value, according to a report posted today on the Health Affairs Web site.
... Comments (0)Source: ModernHealthcare.com, USPosted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007Consumer Guide to Dentistry: New Website Provides Much-Needed Education on Dental Procedures and Oral HealthAs dental technology advances, many new options are available to people who want a great-looking, healthy smile. But which procedures do you need? How do you choose the right dentist to perform them? And which website provides the most helpful, up-to-date, and unbiased information on dentistry?
... Comments (0)Source: Genetic Engineering News (press release), NYPosted: Wednesday, April 04, 2007Our golden chance for telemedicineImproving health care for Hoosiers is one of the most important issues facing Indiana legislators. We constantly consider how to keep citizens safer and healthier while deliberating the costs, pondering insurance plans and struggling with adequate Medicaid funding.
... Comments (0)Source: Indianapolis Star, USPosted: Thursday, March 22, 2007Dispute surfaces over certification for personal health recordsIn a rare instance of public dissent, an American Health Information Community AHIC) workgroup has split over whether to recommend that product certification be available for personal health record software.
... Comments (0)Source: Government Health IT, USPosted: Thursday, March 15, 2007CalRHIO selects team to build health info exchangeThe California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO) has selected the team of Medicity and Perot Systems to build a statewide health information exchange service.
... Comments (0)Source: Government Health IT, USPosted: Thursday, March 15, 2007