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The Role of Physicians in Driving Toward Unified Patient Information Management

August 17, 2011

In our series on unified patient information management, we first introduced this new integrated approach followed by a blog post on the central position health plans have in driving toward the wider adoption of systems for UPIM.  In this third blog post of our UPIM series, we focus on the role of physicians in adopting [...]

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The Role of Health Plans in Effective Patient Information Management

August 10, 2011

In our first blog post in this series on better patient information management, we covered the overarching benefits for adopting a unified approach to patient data. Now, we would like to turn our attention to the specific role of health plans in driving the industry toward this new standardized approach, helping stakeholders galvanize around scalable [...]

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How Patient Information Management is Affecting Care Coordination

August 2, 2011

Each year, billions of pieces of health data are generated as patients visit the doctor’s office, go to the ER, undergo procedures and answer the requisite personal questions at each location. That doesn’t include the volumes of patient data generated by health plans, pharmacies, labs or even the patients themselves. Alarmingly, the majority of this [...]

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Interfacing Challenge: Patient Matching Examples in Healthcare Integration

January 13, 2011

After a physician’s office receives a new Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, the business is primed to begin electronic exchange of clinical data with their imaging or laboratory service provider. The benefits of electronic results include reducing errors due to manual entry, improving turn-around time for reporting, increased potential revenue due to greater efficiency and [...]

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My First Patient, My Perpetual Patient

January 4, 2011

I survived anatomy…  It feels so good to write that sentence.  Maybe my former friends will allow me to associate with them once again, now that I don’t perpetually smell like formaldehyde and latex gloves.  Medical students, doctors, physician assistants, and others who take human anatomy have varying opinions on how enjoyable the course was, [...]

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GS1 and HL7 Join Forces to Develop Global Standards to Improve Patient Care

December 21, 2010

HL7 and GS1 have announced today they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that begins an era of collaboration in developing global standards for improving patient care. HL7 Press Releases

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Interfacing Challenge: Patient Data Matching with HL7 Messages

December 3, 2010

More independent reference laboratories and imaging centers are connecting to their referring community of physicians by creating interfaces between their Laboratory Information System (LIS), Radiology Information System (RIS), and the physician’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. In their efforts to create a seamless process of transmitting electronic results, they typically find challenges in various aspects [...]

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Images Play a Vital Role in Creating a Complete Patient Record

November 23, 2010

To the dismay of the radiology community, medical imaging was not included as a key component in the initial draft of the CMS Meaningful Use (MU) of Electronic Health Records criteria. Fortunately, for patients and the tens of thousands of radiology professionals who serve them, imaging data components have been expanded and the role of [...]

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IT is the Patient (or E-Patient or Citizen)

September 9, 2010

If you haven’t noticed, there is a mad dash to get IT initiatives underway to meet the Meaningful Use requirements. GEN I Feed

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