EVENTS

MAY

Meeting on Health Technologies That Transform Care

San Francisco

MAY

Summit on States' Implementation of Health IT Initiatives

Baltimore

MAY

West Coast Summit on Using Health Data To Boost Care

San Francisco

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FROM THE FOUNDATION

Informing Choices, Improving Outcomes

The California Joint Replacement Registry collects data on device efficacy, surgical techniques, and patient outcomes for hip and knee replacements. A new report details how this CHCF-sponsored effort is faring.

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Report: Data Analytics Crucial for Population Health, ACOs

An Institute of Health Technology Transformation report finds that data analytics is critical to the success of population health management and accountable care organizations. The report lists several steps that are key to the effective use of health data analytics, such as building partnerships with health plans to obtain claims data. HIT Consultant, Clinical Innovation & Technology.

Bed Management Tools Are Market Opportunity for Vendors, Report Says

A report from HIMSS Analytics finds that bed management technologies represent one of the most promising market opportunities for vendors because of their low rate of market penetration. The report ranked 24 types of health care software applications. FierceHealthIT.

Southeastern Penn. Prepares To Build First Data Exchange in Region

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office is reviewing a five-year, $8.9 million contract under which Truven Health Analytics would build the platform for a new health information exchange in the southeastern region of the state. Government Health IT, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Drugmakers Leverage Doctor, Patient Data To Market Their Products

Concerns are being raised about the trend of pharmaceutical companies using databases of doctor and patient information to improve drug marketing strategies. Drug companies say they use the data to provide doctors with information tailored to their needs. New York Times.

Health IT Business News Roundup for the Week of May 17, 2013

Six health care organizations have selected VitalWare's claims auditing and ICD-10 financial risk assessment tool. TigerText, a health care messaging provider, has partnered with mobility management provider AirWatch to develop secure health care communications tools.

Health Care Industry Falls Behind Schedule in Preparing for Transition to ICD-10

George Arges of the American Hospital Association, Jim Daley of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Kathy DeVault of the American Health Information Management Association and Jeanne Gilreath of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association spoke to iHealthBeat about the health care industry's lack of progress in transitioning to ICD-10 code sets.

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DATA POINTS

What Digital Interventions Do Employers Offer To Boost Health Engagement Among Workers?

Thirty-three percent of surveyed employers say they offer gamification programs to encourage health engagement among workers and 20% say they use social media-based interventions to boost workers' health engagement, according to a recent report from WorldatWork and Buck Consultants.

PERSPECTIVES

Don't Forget: Electronic Health Records Are Benefiting Patients

by John Halamka and John P. Hoyt

Congress needs to be sure to consider the positives of health IT when considering reductions in health care spending. Thanks to the contributions of electronic health records, care quality and safety are improving, while medical errors are being reduced.

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"Properly deployed ICT, and the appropriate Training will provide this Nation, with a Cost Savings around 20-30 percent of our annual National Healthcare Expenditures."

- Gadema Quoquoi

FEATURES

Patient Blogging Could Offer Host of Benefits

by Lisa Zamosky, iHealthBeat Contributing Reporter

There is growing evidence that blogging about illness and treatment can be beneficial for patients. Large medical institutions have taken note and are incorporating blogging into their treatment offerings.