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'Finance departments will need to prepare to manage these challenges and have better systems to measure performance'...providers shift away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment models, they're hitting some serious roadblocks – one of them being that the majority of them lack sophisticated IT tools and analysis to support these new models.

While big data, electronic health records and patient engagement tools are seen as the big solutions to improving healthcare, there are more modest goals clinicians eye to provide better care,…Using good data, instead of just big data…tools need to be used not just for documentation and billing, but also to help clinicians learn

Your…healthcare data is…scattered throughout the medical universe,…from notes scribbled…to test results resting in far-flung computer systems…to pull that information together…is a bit like throwing a lasso around a tsunami… which type of organization will take the lead on a patient-data integration system…?

The country's four largest state medical associations (Texas, California, Florida and New York) say two years of 'on-the-job training' will avert financial disaster for physician practices…"We believe that two years of transition time, on-the-job learning by physicians--plus our continued ICD-10 educational activities--will result in a much less disastrous transition to this overwhelmingly complicated new coding system,"......

Anti-virus, firewalls deployed as protection, but most recognize need for more advanced strategies...Two-thirds of health organizations polled...latest cybersecurity survey say they've recently experienced a "significant security incident."...

...five million medications have been tracked using radio frequency identification technology. system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside, patient safety has been greatly enhanced. "It's cutting down on medication errors,..

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy will continue to fund access by state prescription monitoring programs to interstate data from its PMP InterConnect program. State PMPs will be able to participate in the program at no cost through June 2018.

…offsite doctors with the assistance of remote-controlled robots and direct bedside care providers to be just as effective,.., compared with typical in-person care…On-site…5 minutes per patient…offsite doctors averaged 8 minutes due to slow or dropped Internet connections and time needed to operate the robot.

Instead of building integration and countless interfaces, new tools aim to fix the workflow problem on top of the electronic health record … "Having the government mandate interoperability is completely wrong,"…"I think we should let the market drive it – and the market says physicians want a single workflow."..

Four health providers will partner with CVS Health to allow communication between electronic health records and the pharmacy,….will feed prescription and MinuteClinic visit information into Sutter Health, Millennium Physician Group, Bryan Health Connect and Mount Kisco Medical Group….