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Hot Topics in Health Care Law — Saturday July 7, 2012
Today’s edition of Hot Topics in Health Care Law is available. This topic aggregator/newspaper contains articles that I think are on the cutting edge of health law.
90 Percent of Patients Want to Self-Manage Health Online: Accenture Survey – Health Care IT – News & Reviews
Patients want to access health information online and fill prescriptions electronically. But they also want face-to-face time with their doctor, a survey by Accenture revealed.
GE, IBM, and Boeing: Improving Health Care for their Employees
Through its HealthAhead program, online portal and mobile application, GE is communicating with employees and empowering them to take an active and accountable role in planning and managing their health, to engage in behaviors for healthy living and to demand value from the health care system.
The foundation of IBM’s approach to driving value and innovation in the health care delivery system is primary care transformation. IBM’s leaders believe that the primary care medical home model is a promising catalyst for overall health care delivery system reform.
In February 2007, Boeing launched the Intensive Outpatient Care Program (IOCP) to test an innovative health care delivery model designed to treat patients with multiple, complex conditions in a more efficient, high-touch manner. The IOCP was based on three key assumptions:
- Twenty percent of the high-cost population utilize 80 percent of health care spend;
- Medically complex individuals are underserved by the current fragmented, inefficient health care system and can benefit the most from personalized, coordinated care; and
- A breakthrough in health care delivery for medically complex patients could provide important lessons for the health care system and help shape the design of the future medical home delivery model.
See articles on all 3 companies on Scoop.it – Changing Healthcare for the Better
U.S. Faces Obstacles to Improving Health Care Value
The U.S. faces major obstacles in taking advantage of “value-based health care”—one of the most promising developments in health care, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). BCG assessed the progress of 12 developed-world countries in adopting value-based health care, an approach to better controlling health care costs by improving health outcomes at the same or lower cost.
Mobile Devices: Changing Healthcare Forever
Mobile devices aren’t only changing how doctors work–they’re shaping the overall healthcare landscape, too.
Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in 2011 Among Medicare Physicians Providing Evaluation and Management Services
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The OIG found that 57 percent of Medicare physicians used an EHR system at their primary practice location in 2011. Twenty-two percent of physicians first began using EHR systems to document E/M services in 2011, the year that CMS commenced its incentive program. Additionally, three of every four Medicare physicians with an EHR system used a certified system to document E/M services. Finally, although many EHR systems can assist physicians in assigning codes for E/M services, the OIG found that most Medicare physicians manually assigned E/M codes.
See on oig.hhs.gov
Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM
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There is ongoing debate about the wisdom of the $27 billion federal investment driving the adoption of health information technology (IT) under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. Proponents expect IT to catalyze the transformation of health care delivery in the United States from a fragmented cottage industry plagued by poor quality and high costs to a highly organized, integrated system that delivers high-quality care efficiently. Skeptics suggest that the productivity benefits of health IT have been overstated, arguing that it may create safety problems and could even increase costs.
See on www.nejm.org
Escaping the EHR Trap — The Future of Health IT — NEJM
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Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Escaping the EHR Trap — It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation — while doctors become increasingly bound to documentation and communication products that are functionally decades behind those they use in their “civilian” life.
See on www.nejm.org
9 Best Practices For Hospital Data Security in a “Bring Your Own” Era | Healthcare Information Technology
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The mobility of patient data — made possible by new technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices in the workplace — is a leading factor in data breaches.
See on www.beckershospitalreview.com
Social Media Competing With Doctors For Healthcare Influence | Chronic Condition Management
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A recent report finds that many young adults are turning to social media for health-related matters, according to the Healthcare Intelligence Network.
See on www.chronicconditionmanagementdelivered.com
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