Most doctors would love to have instantaneous electronic access to patients’ full medical records, regardless of where they’ve been treated before. However, the effort to build such a system is many years in the making, and it continues to drag on. For an integrated system to work, developers at different companies have to agree on [...]
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills today released a new report, Insurance at Risk: Small Business Employees Risk Losing Coverage. The report examines the healthcare status quo that has left employees at risk of losing their insurance and underscores the financial difficulties small businesses face when [...]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Congressman Mark Schauer of Michigan held a press availability this afternoon in the Capitol with representatives from Easter Seals to highlight the urgency of health insurance reform for children with pre-existing conditions. Shannon Saunders Eaton of Ohio and Jessica Segal of Texas told their personal stories [...]
The vast majority of health care organizations experienced at least one incident of lost or stolen electronic health information in the past year and four percent had more than five patient data breaches, according to a new survey by LogLogic and the Ponemon Institute. Of the 80 percent that reported a data breach, more than [...]
The Case Management Society of America (CMSA) and DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance (DMAA) are working together to strengthen and define the relationship between health care “case management” and “population health management” interventions. This dynamic collaboration between the two health care associations will promote a fully-connected health care system that will improve clinical and financial [...]
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