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Remote Care Management Program to Be Rolled Out Nationwide
Building on the success of a two-year study that determined that videoconferencing significantly reduced hospital readmissions, Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health has partnered with its parent organization, Ascension Health Alliance, to form a joint venture that officially will launch a remote care management program next month with the goal of scaling the program on a national [...]
WellPoint to Boost Primary-Care Pay
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. plans to improve primary care reimbursement and start paying for care management it doesn’t currently cover, changes that could give patients more quality time with their doctors. The Indianapolis company said Friday it will increase the fees it pays to doctor practices, and it will start paying for services like preparing [...]
Indiana HIMSS Spring Conference May 8, 2013 – Innovation!!!
Indiana HIMSS will be holding their Spring Conference on May 8, 2013 at The Fountains in Carmel, Indiana. The theme centers around Innovation in HIT. See agenda here. The keynote speaker is going to be Troy Trygstad who is the Director of the Network Pharmacist Program and Pharmacy Projects for Community Care of North Carolina, which is [...]
Michigan and Indiana Enter Full Production for Interstate Health Information Exchange Using Direct Secure Email
EAST LANSING, Mich., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) and the Michiana Health Information Network (MHIN) have announced transmission of patient immunization records from Indiana health care providers to Michigan’s Care Improvement Registry (MCIR) using Direct secure email through the MiHIN cloud and the Michigan Department of Community [...]
HIEs help you share data, cut costs, improve patient care
ISMA e-Reports, Jan. 7, 201 You may be missing opportunities that can help you improve patient care and reduce health care costs if you are not participating in a health information exchange (HIE). An HIE allows you to securely store and transmit data electronically to another physician office, hospital or lab using an electronic health [...]
The patient-centered medical home: Understand why and how it’s changing primary care – and influencing all health care delivery
The third part in an ISMA Reports series* e-Reports, December 17, 2012 The concluding part of our series on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) offers some insights from colleagues and early results from pilot PCMH projects here and nationally. See Part I and Part II. PCMH in Indianapolis Practices nearing NCQA recognition as a PCMH [...]
REC Poster Parade at ONC’s Annual Meeting
HealthLINC’s Executive Director, Dr. Todd Rowland, attended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Annual Meeting – A Meaningful Foundation for the Future of Healthcare – in Washington, D.C., from December 11 – 13, 2012. ONC’s annual meeting offered awardees, stakeholders, and members of [...]
Medicaid Savings
An outside consultant says a method to help North Carolina Medicaid recipients receive more proactive health care and treatment for chronic conditions saved nearly $1 billion over four years. On Wednesday, Gov. Beverly Perdue’s administration released results of the review of Medicaid’s “medical home model” and Community Care of North Carolina, which is a series [...]
The patient-centered medical home: Understand why and how it’s changing primary care
The second in an ISMA Reports series* e-Reports, December 3, 2012 This part of the series on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) looks at why the model is advancing after decades of stagnation. (See Part I in the Nov. 19 issue.) What is it about the current health care delivery environment that has given energy [...]
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