ACO Top Content
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TELE-MED Act Aims To Eliminate Licensure Hurdles
9/19/2013
Proposed bill would allow doctors to electronically treat patients across state lines without multiple licenses By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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Where Patient Portals May Be Failing
8/21/2013
Online patient portals are easy to access but may be failing is as a substitute for discharge orders By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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Cleaning “Dirty Data”
9/26/2013
Can something as simple as a smart card prevent “dirty data” and Medicare fraud? By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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EHRs, Portals Increase Patient Engagement
1/22/2014
Ohio State University researchers discover increase in vaccinations when providers communicate with through EHRs and portals By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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Specialists Struggle With MU Reporting
11/14/2013
A group of specialists is asking Congress to make an exception when it comes to MU reporting requirements By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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Guest Column: Opening A Portal On Federal Health IT Policymakers
3/31/2011
Opening A Portal On Federal Health IT Policymakers. By Tee Green, president and CEO, Greenway Medical Technologies
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The Top 5 Trends From HIMSS13
3/12/2013
As the largest conference the city of New Orleans ever hosted, HIMSS13 delivered a ton of exciting health IT news and developments. However, these five takeaways made the biggest impression on me at the event.
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What Drives Healthcare Innovation?
6/7/2013
In an op-ed column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman acknowledges the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act but focuses on an unexpected benefit of it, writing, “There is one area where the law already appears to be surprising on the upside. And that is the number of health care information start-ups it’s spurring. This is a big deal.” By John Oncea, editor
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Risk Or Remedy: How Data Can Help Halt The Readmissions Crisis
3/15/2016
Under pressure to do more with less, healthcare providers are pushing data analytics to new heights — looking to improve care, prevent readmissions, and reduce costs for stakeholders and patients.
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Telemedicine Drives Healthcare Quality Improvements
11/27/2012
Healthcare reform was the hot-button issue in the presidential election, alongside job creation, of course. While there is a great deal of debate on “Obamacare” and its worthiness and likely impact, both political parties generally agree that the current U.S. health care spend – at more than 17 percent of GDP – is far too high and isn’t delivering the expected benefits in both the quality of and patient access to care.