In an effort to educate health-care leaders about providing a well-designed, consumer-friendly health plan comparison tool as part of the health insurance Exchanges being developed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Robert Krughoff, president of nonprofit Consumers' CHECKBOOK, recently spoke at the World Health Congress on Health Insurance Exchanges and demonstrated key features of a successful plan comparison tool.
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Hennepin County Medical Center, a 477-bed hospital in downtown Minneapolis, is ready to display its meaningful use readiness to the world. And Chief Medical Information Officer Kevin Larson says the hospital wouldn’t be ready if it hadn’t embraced mobile health.
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Proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mobile health regulations showed up in the Federal Register in late July. A week later at the World Congress 3rd Annual Leadership Summit on mHealth, stakeholders debated if -- and how much -- they would stifle development.
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Should you buy your medical staff smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices, or let them use their own devices for work? It's a dilemma most CIOs are facing now, with little long-term experience to guide them.
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Cleveland Clinic is betting that its physicians, IT staff and others have some great ideas for apps and other mobile products. So much so, officials there have created a mobile "governance committee" of physicians, marketers, administrators, registered nurses and IT reps.
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Mobile technology, and its ability to provide rapid access to medical information, can be both good and bad for providers' medical liability risk. That's the upshot of Harvard health law professor Michelle Mello's presentation at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth from Thursday.
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Health insurer Highmark plans to launch a new mobile app for its members early next year, Lisa Fitting, Director of Digital Client Engagement at Highmark told attendees this morning at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston. Highmark partnered up with A.D.A.M.
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The Department of Defense recently launched a full clinical trial of its mCare mobile app and platform for soldiers with brain injuries, Commander Peter Park, clinical informatics deputy director for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery revealed at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth Thursday morning.
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With the recent increases in federal Medicaid funding set to expire this month, state Medicaid directors from around the country will convene next month in Washington D.C. for the World Congress Leadership Summit on Medicaid to address how they plan to deal with the impact.
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I spent two days last week at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations and my mind is just now recovering. As far as speaker quality goes, this conference (which offered concurrent tracks on ICD-10 and Meaningful Use) was top-notch, with dozens of speakers from hospitals, medical groups, payers, and consulting firms. There was a lot to absorb, but a few recurring themes came through. Here are my Top 10 takeaways from the conference:
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Free & Clear, a national leader in behavior change services
for health improvement, announced today that it will change its name to Alere Wellbeing.
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"The big momentum in health care is around consumerism and activating employees and their family members through information and incentives that focus on improving health," said Robert S. Galvin, M.D., former director of global health care at GE and currently the head of equity health care at The Blackstone Group.
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The official handover of the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) took place today at a meeting of innovation leaders held during the World Health Care Congress.
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Fred Hassan, chairman of Bausch & Lomb, talks about the outlook for the pharmaceutical industry and his turnaround efforts at Bausch & Lomb. Hassan speaks with Shannon Pettypiece at the World Health Care Congress in Washington on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." Bloomberg's Carol Massar also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
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David Cutler, a professor and health economist at Harvard University, discusses the impact of the Obama health-care law on jobs and the prospects for lowering health costs in the U.S. Cutler talks with Shannon Pettypiece from the World Health Care Congress in Washington on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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