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Project ECHO: Force Multiplier For Community Health Centers
Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better Improve Care
The Final Stage Of Meaningful Use Rules: Will EHRs Finally Pay Off?
A Policy Dialogue On Connected Health
Patient Experience Will Drive A Renewal Of Professionalism
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Project ECHO: Force Multiplier For Community Health Centers
Even with the Affordable Care Act, millions of Americans struggle to access health care when they need it. A huge part of the problem is a lack of both primary care and specialty providers in rural and other underserved communities. Without local providers...
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Closing The Rural Health Connectivity Gap: How Broadband Funding Can Better Improve Care
Broadband access is not usually highlighted in policy prescriptions for improving outcomes and lowering costs of health care. But it is a prerequisite for a range of technologies that can provide more cost-effective and higher-quality care, such as video...
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The Final Stage Of Meaningful Use Rules: Will EHRs Finally Pay Off?
Six years ago, President Obama signed into law the HITECH Act , which spelled out a path to a nationwide health information technology infrastructure. The goal was simple: every doctor, nurse, and hospital in America should use electronic health records...
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A Policy Dialogue On Connected Health
Editor's note: In addition to Janet Marchibroda (photo and linked bio above), this post was coauthored by Chris Fleming, Health Affairs Blog Editor. What is telehealth or “connected health”? What is driving the use of connected health and what are...
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Patient Experience Will Drive A Renewal Of Professionalism
The conventional wisdom among many of my closest physician colleagues is that the current surge in interest in measuring “patient experience” is a bit of a fad, and that the measures are not always central to the real work of improving patient care. My...
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Accountable Care Organizations And Innovation: A Changing Landscape
As Accountable Care Organizations take the country by storm, too little attention is being paid to how the new incentive structure of ACOs is sharply altering the landscape of health care innovation. ACOs, even at this early stage, are changing the innovation...
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Studies Puncture Arguments About Benefits of Imaging Self-Referral
When physicians who aren’t radiologists refer patients to imaging facilities they own or lease—known as self-referral—their patients don’t always benefit. In fact, these self-referrals lead to overuse of services, escalate spending, and rarely shorten...
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Wed, Dec 12 2010 8:24 AM
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Computerized Physician Order Entry: Accomplishments And Remaining Challenges
A few weeks ago I toured a hospital that had recently adopted computerized physician order entry (CPOE). We visited a patient room on the Med-Surge floor, where a nurse explained what happens in an emergency. Before they adopted CPOE, nurses would run...
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Health Care Costs And Imaging Technology Adoption
Editor’s Note: In October, Health Affairs published two papers on factors driving imaging utilization. One paper, by Jacqueline Baras and Laurence Baker, analyzes the relationship between MRI supply and care for fee-for-service Medicare patients...
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