Claims Data
David Catron, The American Spectator
“While armies of attorneys battle the Justice Department over Obamacare’s constitutionality, and politicians hold forth about their strategies for repealing and replacing the unpopular law, bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working around the clock to assure that the President’s “signature domestic achievement” becomes a permanent fixture of your life. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her accomplice Donald Berwick have been promulgating regulations as quickly as their minions can get them written.
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18 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Central storage, Claims Data, Data Aggregation, Insurer, Privacy
Neil Versel, EMR and HIPAA
“A paper just published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that searching EMRs with natural-language processing identified up to 12 times the number of pneumonia cases and twice the rate of kidney failure and sepsis as did searches based on billing codes—ironically called “patient safety indicators” in the study—for patients admitted for surgery at six VA hospitals.
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26 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, emr, NLP, Quality
Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“Electronic health records can provide new opportunities for obtaining more comprehensive data regarding quality of health services patients receive than relying solely on Medicaid claims data, according to a new study.
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25 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Quality, Reliability
CMIO
“Networked EHRs provide new opportunities for obtaining more comprehensive data on health services received, especially among populations that are not continuously insured, according to research published in the July edition of Annals of Family Medicine.
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17 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Diabetes
Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The main way the FDA gets this kind of data is through the MedWatch Online Voluntary Reporting system, and from analysis of claims data (mostly from CMS – Medicare). Claims data will, typically, have a 3-month tail, and represent diagnosis codes used for billing (rather than on the clinical front-lines in EHRs).
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15 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Drugs, medication-surveillance, Secondary Data Use
Healthcare IT News
“For decades, researchers have used de-identified claims and prescription data from the Thomson Reuters MarketScan Research Databases to conduct studies that evaluate medical treatments — commonly called “outcomes research” or “comparative effectiveness research.”
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23 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Clinical Data, De-identification, Effectiveness, emr, Research, Secondary Data Use
Anne Steciw, Health IT Pulse
“Health care institutions aren’t the only ones aiming to go digital this year: The Social Security Administration (SSA) has been advised to move the majority of its business transactions online.
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28 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, emr, Health Information Exchange, phr
Nathan Golia, Insurance Technology
“Stakeholders across the healthcare industry have long touted electronic medical records as a key component to a streamlined, more efficient healthcare system.
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3 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Claims Data, Data Management, Insurer, phr
IFAwebnews
“Independence Blue Cross (IBC) is offering its members more personalized online information about their health, a move it says coincides with health reform’s passage.
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31 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Claims Data, Health Information, Insurer, Online
PRNewswire
“Independence Blue Cross (IBC) now offers its members more personalized online information about their health – as the amazon.com experience is to the savvy shopper, the ibxpress.com experience is to the smart health care consumer. Personal health information began to flow into members’ electronic health records this month – available through ibxpress.com, the company’s member website.
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9 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, phr
Kaitlyn Dmyterko, CMIO Magazine
“Electronic health records, claim-scrubbing software and computer-assisted coding help facilities net optimal reimbursement and gird for the switch to ICD-10.
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1 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Coding, ICD-10
Neil Versel, FierceEMR
“Regular readers know about my skepticism toward personal health records. You’re probably also aware that I have been critical of media coverage touting Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault as the clear industry leaders in this category. They’re not.
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21 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Google-Health, HealthVault, phr
Benzinga
“Premera Blue Cross today announced an important collaboration with Microsoft aimed at providing Microsoft employees with integrated, personal health records.
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19 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, HealthVault, phr
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
‘A recent study involving 60 interviewees revealed that the documentation focus of current ambulatory EMRs supports billing and not patient needs. Researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) concluded that the current reimbursement system drives EMR use for documenting billable services over care coordination, the opposite of what policymakers wanted.
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6 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, emr, Medical Home
Vince Kuraitis, e-CareManagement
“Medicare announced today that it is extending its Personal Health Record (PHR) pilot project for residents of Utah and Arizona.
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20 November 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, phr
PRWeb
“Medicare PHR Choice, a pilot program that provides beneficiaries with direct input of claims data into online personal health records (PHRs), will continue through December 2010 according to officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The pilot is available to people with Original Fee-for-Service Medicare who are primary residents of Utah and Arizona.
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20 November 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, Claims Data, phr
Hippocrates, Trusted.MD
“Anybody who followed this blog closely should not be surprised by my skepticism about Personal Health Records (PHR). A patient-managed record is a feel-good idea that unfortunately lacks the economic model to support itself.
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28 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Google-Health, phr
Roni Zeiger, The Official Google Blog
“At Google, we believe that consumers should have convenient and secure access to all their health data so that they can be better informed and be more involved in their care. Recently, a data-savvy patient known as e-Patient Dave blogged about data that was imported into his Google Health Account from his hospital in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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27 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Google-Health, SNOMED
Editorial, Boston Globe
“As the country edges toward full computerization of medical records, most of the objections have focused on potential breaches of privacy. Beth Israel Deaconess has stumbled on a different problem in its tie-in with Google Health: accuracy.
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24 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Google-Health
Neil Versel, BNET Healthcare
“In a post earlier this month, I took Google and Microsoft to task for acting as if new legal provisions meant to safeguard the privacy of patient-specific health data didn’t apply to their personal health records platforms, respectively known as Google Health and HealthVault.
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24 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Claims Data, Google-Health
