Major Milestones – White Coat & Hands-on Work

by admin on January 26, 2012

After Block 1 was completed, the white coat ceremony was held. This is where I received the coat that I will wear throughout medical school. It was exciting to get my first white coat, as was seeing my fellow friends get “coated” and meeting everyone’s family. Also, after Block 1 ended, we started the cadaver [...]
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Are ACOs Like Chasing Unicorns? 32 Health Systems Don’t Believe So

January 25, 2012

As an author of a book focused on planning for Accountable Care Organizations, I’ve heard from all too many providers and consultants who believe the concept will never take off. Although I remain cautiously optimistic about this new care delivery model, I am very much looking forward to the results of the Pioneer ACO program. [...]

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Six Questions to Consider About Merging a CCD

January 24, 2012

Several questions can arise when considering whether to parse the data of a CCD document from a remote facility and merge it into the local EHR. HIEs are spurring increased emphasis on the use of CCD documents to exchange information among facilities, so it would be ideal to have consistent practices regarding the merging of [...]

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A Peek Inside IHE Connectathon

January 24, 2012

The IHE Connectathon event for 2012 was held in Chicago last week. Connectathon allows vendors from healthcare IT to test their ability to support IHE profiles, which are critical to standardizing communications across HIEs, ACOs, and across regions. Here are a few observations from my first-time participation at Connectathon: Industry Buy-in It was apparent from [...]

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BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits: An Idea for mHealth App Success

January 22, 2012

Already abandoned your New Year resolutions? We have a hard time changing our behavior. By now, approximately 60 percent of us have already abandoned our New Year resolutions. One study shows that 35 percent of those who made resolutions, never even started them. Not surprisingly, the most popular resolutions are health related — for weight [...]

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Join us For Another ‘Special Edition’ #HITsm TweetChat. This Week’s Topic: ACOs

January 22, 2012

Join us online Friday, Jan. 19 at 11 a.m., CT, for a “Special Edition” of our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. We asked the Colin Konschak, Shane Danaher and Phillip Felt from DIVURGENT, a national healthcare consultanting firm with offices in Dallas and Virginia Beach, Va., to join us for this week’s chat and to help develop [...]

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Join us for a ‘Special Edition’ HIMSS #HITsm TweetChat, Jan. 13

January 13, 2012

Join us online Friday, Jan. 13 at 11 a.m., CT, for a “Special Edition” of our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. We collaborated with HIMSS (Heathcare Information and Management Systems Society) staff members to develop this week’s topics to help provide information to the Twitter community and to help build momentum for their upcoming 2012 annual conference, [...]

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Happy Birthday, #HITsm TweetChat!

January 11, 2012

The HL7 Standards team is proud to say that one year ago today, on January 10, 2010, the inaugural #HITsm TweetChat took place. We would like to send a big “Thank You” to the #HITsm Twitter community for helping make the chats so successful. View the transcript from the first #HITsm TweetChat. Exactly how much [...]

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#HITsm Tweet Chat Topics for Jan. 6: Social Media, EMR and mHealth

January 6, 2012

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Great Hope for 2012 Begins With a Look Back at The 10 Most Popular Posts From 2011

January 5, 2012

The transition of the calendar year always brings out countless Top 10 lists. That makes perfect sense, really, because after investing time and effort into any effort, it’s good to look back to see what people liked and what was successful to help steer where we go in the future. The following 10 HL7 Standards [...]

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Health Information Exchange: What’s the Motivation?

January 5, 2012

HIE Series. Part 1 of 6. Now that the majority of innovative healthcare organizations have invested the capital, the time and the effort to install electronic medical records, many are looking to fully leverage the technology by connecting to a health information exchange, or HIE. GEN I Feed

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2011: 6 Health IT Shifts + 3 Disappointments

December 28, 2011

You can read about the shift happening. The news is now in mainstream publications, with a daily drumbeat of updates from health IT trade magazines, websites, and blogs. You can see the shift happening. If you visited a hospital or physician practice this year, you may have seen electronic records. You can sense the shift [...]

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Creedence, The Dude and Consolidated CDA

December 24, 2011

CCR … I’m sure there are days for those who work in Health IT and with the various health standards  when it would be a nice, mental break if those three letters represented what many recognize it as – Creedence Clearwater Revival. We could all take it easy like Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, roll down [...]

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“Interconnected Health 2012″ Call for Participation

December 23, 2011

OMG®, Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), today announced the Call for Participation for “Interconnected Health 2012: Enabling Health through High-Impact IT.” The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Chicago, IL on April 2-4, 2012. Registration and abstract submission details may be found online [...]

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2011 Top #HITsm Contributors

December 20, 2011

In 2010, we published the inaugural Top #HITsm Contributor Awards, which included a top-10 list for both individual and organizational Twitter accounts. 2010 winners were chosen based on the number of nominations they received and Klout scores, and included some fantastic Twitter feeds that continue to produce excellent Health IT content. After discussion among the [...]

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Only 38% Have a Mobile Policy: HIMSS Releases Survey, Launches mHIMSS

December 18, 2011

HIMSS reports that although its clinicians are accessing information through a mobile device, only 38 percent say they have a policy in place that regulates the use of mobile devices and outlines a mobile strategy. HIMSS released the results of its First Annual Mobile Technology Survey at the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington D.C. this [...]

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#HITsm Chat, Dec. 16, 11 a.m: Reflections on 2011 and Predictions for 2012

December 17, 2011

Join us online Friday, Dec. 16 at 11 a.m., CT, for our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. It’s easy to join the Twitter conversation by logging into the #HITsm TweetChat Room, which automatically keeps you in the conversation by tagging all tweets with the #HITsm hash tag. If you are unable to access the TweetChat room, simply [...]

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They’re Back! The 2011 #HITsm Awards – A Call for Nominations

December 13, 2011

The health IT online community – in particular the #HITsm “Twitter community” – continues to grow and consistently produces and shares valuable content related to the industry that would be impossible for one person to find alone. Our weekly #HITsm Tweet Chats continually produce spirited discussion, and the #HITsm hashtag is consistently the #1-ranked healthcare [...]

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HIT Quiz Results! Your Knowledge of The New ACO Ruling

December 12, 2011

On Nov. 3 we published a six-question, multiple-choice HIT Quiz on the final ACO regulations, which were released Oct. 20 by The Department of Health and Human Services. (For background reading on the revised rules, see Final rule eases ACO regulations, lifts EHR requirements, from Healthcare IT News.) Quiz results were definitely a mixed bag. [...]

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#HITsm Chat, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m., CT. Topic: mHealth

December 10, 2011

Join us online Friday, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. for our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. It’s easy to join the Twitter conversation by logging in to the #HITsm TweetChat Room, which automatically keeps you in the conversation by tagging all tweets with the #HITsm hash tag. If you are unable to access the TweetChat room, simply [...]

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What Does the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Timeline Extension Mean For Providers?

December 9, 2011
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