Continuity of care is a cornerstone of primary care and is important for patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. The study objective was to examine patient, provider and contextual factors associated with interpersonal continuity of care (ICoC) among Veteran's Health Administration (VHA) primary care patients with diabetes. This patient-level cohort study (N = 656,368) used electronic health record data of adult, pharmaceutically treated patients (96.5% male) with diabetes at national VHA primary care clinics in 2012 and 2013. Each patient was assigned a

Background: Many people with diabetes continue to smoke despite being at high risk of cardiovascular disease. We examined the impact of a pay-for-performance incentive in the United Kingdom introduced in 2004 as part of the new general practitioner contract to improve support for smoking cessation and to reduce the prevalence of smoking among people with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Methods: We performed a population-based longitudinal study of the recorded delivery of cessation advice and the prevalence of smoking using electronic records of patients with diabetes obtained from participating general practices. The survey was carried out in an ethnically diverse part of southwest London before (June-October 2003) and after (November 2005-January 2006) the introduction of a pay-for-performance incentive. Results: Significantly more patients with diabetes had their smoking status ever recorded in 2005 than in 2003 (98.8% v. 90.0%, p ...

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The immediate purpose of this work is to identify electronic health record (EHR) data available today and in the near future at healthcare facilities participating in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN). The overarching goal is to address a critical barrier to progress in substance use disorder (SUD) research and support planning on the CTN for research infrastructure to leverage EHR data for research informing SUD screening, intervention, treatment, and referral efforts.

Submitted To: Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services Regarding: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program Opportunity #EP-HIT-09001 CFDA# 93.719 Every Oklahoman will benefit from the improved quality and decreased cost of health care afforded by the secure and appropriate communication of their health information to all providers involved in their care, raising the health status of individuals and the entire state population. - Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust Vision Statement Submitted by: Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust March 11, 2011 Oklahoma's Revised Operational Plan for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program (SHIECAP) OHIET OKLAHOMA HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE TRUST / OPERATIONAL PLAN - MARCH 2011 PAGE 1 Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust Operational Plan Table of Contents 1. Strategic Plan (under separate ...

Submitted To: Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services Regarding: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program Opportunity #EP-HIT-09001 CFDA# 93.719 Every Oklahoman will benefit from the improved quality and decreased cost of health care afforded by the secure and appropriate communication of their health information to all providers involved in their care, raising the health status of individuals and the entire state population. - Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust Vision Statement Oklahoma's Revised Strategic Plan for the State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program (SHIECAP) Submitted by: Oklahoma Health Information Exchange Trust March 11, 2011 OHIET Revised Strategic Plan Page 1 Table of Contents Page 1. Strategic Plan 1.1. Oklahoma Approach to Health Information Technology .................................4 1.1.1. History of Health ...

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In order to qualify for federal incentive payments available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), health care providers (referred to as Eligible Professionals or EPs in the federal regulations) must meet "Meaningful Use" (MU) requirements for the use of electronic medical records. EPs can receive as much as $44,000 over a five-year period through Medicare, and as much as $63,750 over six years through Medicaid. Providers can choose to apply for whichever program they are eligible, but not for both.. Meaningful use stage 1 is the first phase of the incentive program, and all EPs must adopt an EMR that meets the required criteria by the end of 2014 in order to be eligible for government incentives. For providers to receive the maximum incentive, they must have achieved MU for at least 90 days by the end of the 2012 federal fiscal year (i.e., September 30, 2012). Stage 1 MU consists of 25 objectives and 41 quality measures. EPs must meet 20 of the 25 objectives, 3 core ...

Service-oriented motivation has been created to illustrate people's motivation to join the public sector. The aim of this study is the formation of organizational citizenship behavior based on service-oriented motivation, social capital and organizational commitment. The research method is descriptive-correlation and type of the path analysis. Statistical population is included all employees of state-owned banks in Kerman. 220 participants out Of all the population were selected as the sample of the study. Four questionnaires were used to collect data that include: Questionnaires of service-oriented motivation, organizational citizenship behaviors, social capital and organizational commitment. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to determine validity of questionnaires. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to measure the reliability, this coefficient for the questionnaires respectively, 0.83, 0.89, 0.91 and 0.90 were estimated. The data collected were analyzed with ...

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Business Intelligence (BI) has become an essential part of the modern enterprise, and what used to be thought of as a luxury is now a matter of survival. Recent economic developments have forced companies to rethink their IT investment strategy. BI investments are now targeting the majority of people in the organisation instead of a select few. Thus, it is important to understand why users of a BI system choose to accept and use the system. Previous research has established the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as one of the most powerful and parsimonious models explaining user acceptance and usage behaviour of information technologies. This quantitative study replicates the original TAM study with the purpose to increase the understanding of BI usage, and investigates the behaviour of the users of the BI system QlikView in the case company GE Healthcare. The results showed a lower explanatory power for the model when compared to previous research. This indicates that how useful a user perceives ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Organizational Factors that Influence Information Technology Diffusion in Academic Health Sciences Centers. AU - Ash, Joan. PY - 1997. Y1 - 1997. N2 - Objective: To identify the organizational factors which influence the diffusion of end user online literature searching, the computer-based patient record, and electronic mail systems in academic health sciences centers in the United States. Design: A total of 1335 individuals working in informatics and library areas at 67 academic health sciences centers in the U.S. were surveyed. Multivariate techniques were used to evaluate the relationship between the set of six organizational factors and two measures of innovation diffusion. Measurements: A Guttman-like scale was developed to measure infusion, or depth or sophistication, of each of the three innovations at each institution. Diffusion was measured by a question previously developed for another study. Six independent variables were measured via five formerly developed scales and ...

SAN MATEO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/07/14 -- Clarizen, the leader in enterprise work collaboration software, today announced Alder Hey Children's Hospital has increased their productivity, performance and transparency by implementing Clarizen v6. As one of the largest children's hospitals in the United Kingdom and Europe, Alder Hey has set a new standard for how projects should be run. Alder Hey is one of Europe's largest children's hospitals, caring for over 270,000 children's outpatient appointments each year. Alder Hey leads research into children's medicine, infection, inflammation and oncology. As part of its commitment to innovation, six months ago the hospital decided to implement a new electronic health record system. The project will create a central Electronic Patient Record across the hospital and community services. Since the introduction of Clarizen, Alder Hey has greatly reduced the overhead required to plan and track actions associated with the new electronic health record system ...

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Purpose : To assess the feasibility of using automated text parsing to screen physician notes in the electronic health record (EHR) to identify glaucoma patients with poor medication compliance. Methods : For recruitment to a larger study assessing the impact of a glaucoma coaching program on medication adherence, we used an automated EHR pull to identify patients who received ophthalmic care at the University of Michigan, had a diagnosis of glaucoma, were ≥40 years old, and took ≥1 glaucoma medication. A manual chart review was performed to exclude those deceased, or with severe mental illness or cognitive impairment. A research associate called patients and, if interested, assessed their medication adherence with two validated instruments, the Chang Scale and the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. In tandem, we used the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE), a text parsing tool that abstracts data from the text section of the EHR to search for the terms "noncompliant" and ...

PLEASE NOTE: Oregon's CHIP is not part of Medicaid expansion so only Medicaid encounters are applicable to that portion of the calculation. However, the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) includes funding for both Medicaid and CHIP. Because providers cannot differentiate between the two funding streams, providers must reduce all OHP encounters by 4.4%. This is Oregon's statewide rate of CHIP encounters (aka 'CHIP proxy'). The CHIP proxy is calculated by taking the total OHP encounters for the selected 90-day period and mulitplying that number by .956 as shown below ...

The North America home healthcare market was worth USD 757 million in 2014. It is projected to grow lucratively, at around 10% CAGR during 2015 to 2022 (forecast period). This can be attributed to geriatrics population and resulting chronic ailments. Increasing need to lower the healthcare costs is another market driver.. Chronic ailments require continuous care & attendance. Hospitalization involves huge costs. Demand for hospital beds outnumbers their supply. Home healthcare is an effective & affordable solution to these problems.. For Market Research Report on "North America Home Healthcare Market" Visit -http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/north-america-home-healthcare-market. Coverage under Medicaid, Medicare, and other private insurance providers is also an advantage. Moreover, governmental initiatives (e.g. Canadian Home Care Association) will encourage home healthcare. The North America home healthcare market is categorized into products, services, and countries.. Product ...

The West Virginia Health Information Network (WVHIN) has released a new online tool for medical providers to submit a provider connectivity readiness assessment survey online at http://www.wvhin.org. The provider connectivity readiness assessment survey will be used to provide the WVHIN with information about providers' organizations and how utilizing the Health Information Exchange would benefit processes of care. "The provider connectivity readiness assessment survey is the starting point for providers interested in becoming a participant in the WVHIN's Health Information Exchange," said Amber Nary, WVHIN Business Development Manager. "The survey helps the WVHIN understand the providers' connectivity goals, baseline their EHR system capability to connect to the WVHIN and to gather general information about their organization." Currently, critically important patient health information is often fragmented and residing in many different electronic health record (EHR) systems that do not ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 established the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program for Medicaid and Medicare providers. Beginning in 2011, eligible Medi-Cal professionals and hospitals will be able to receive incentive payments to assist in purchasing, installing, and using electronic health records in their practices.. The Office of Health Information Technology (OHIT) has been established in DHCS to develop goals and metrics for the program, establish policies and procedures, and to implement systems to disburse, track, and report the incentive payments. OHIT works closely with the Office of the Deputy Secretary for Health Information Technology in the California Health and Human Services Agency to coordinate the Medi-Cal EHR Incentive Program with wider health information exchange efforts throughout California and the nation. Contact OHIT by email at: [email protected]. ...

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Background: Personal health records (PHRs) remain a relatively new technology and concept in practice even though they have been discussed in the literature for more than 50 years. There is no consensus on the definition of a PHR or PHR system even within the professional societies of health information technology. Objective: Our objective was to analyze and classify the opinions of health information professionals regarding the definitions of the PHR. Method: Q methodology was used to explore the concept of the PHR. A total of 50 Q-statements were selected and rated by 45 P-samples consisting of health information professionals. We analyzed the resulting data by using Q methodology-specific software and SPSS. Result: We selected five types of health information professionals’ opinions: type I, public interest centered; type II, health information standardization centered; type III, health consumer centered; type IV, health information security centered; and type V, health consumer convenience

1.An 86-year-old male parishioner is on hospice care at home, and his daughter, who is a nurse, has been trying to meet all his physical needs around the clock. The pastor, who made a home visit, calls the faith community nurse to express his concern that the daughter is becoming "burned out." How can the faith community nurse engage the faith community as a whole to provide volunteer support to this family?. 2.After reading the article,Transforming and Improving Health Care through Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology, discuss how meaningful use of data from electronic health records can be used to improve population health. Have you seen connections between data collection gathered from electronic health records and how you care for patients? Finally, reflect on your nursing experiences to an incidence where the electronic health record improved patient outcomes. How was the electronic health record used to improve outcomes? What negative impact have you seen using the electronic ...

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HL7 is an organization that was founded in 1987 to set international standards for how health information is exchanged between information systems. It expanded its scope beyond data interchange to include specifications for EHR system functions through its Electronic Health Record Technical Committee. The Electronic Health Record Technical Committee, which was founded in 2001, published its first balloted standard for EHR system functions in 2004.34 This standard is being used as the basis for the EHR system certification process specified by the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (created by Executive Order 13335, April 28, 2004, and authorized by Congress [FR Doc No. 05-16446, Filed August 18, 2005]). The purpose of certification is to set a minimum level of functionality that EHR systems will have to meet to qualify for special treatment, such as participation in pay-for-performance programs.35,36 By contract with the Office of the National ...

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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provides approximately $19 billion in funding to help hospitals and physicians adopt health information technology. The Kansas Hospital Associiation and the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation have compiled and developed resources to support the hospital community on its journey to Meaningful Use. ...

Comparative Effectiveness Research is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal that strives to cover this emerging field. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is a PICOT (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Time) question-driven, systematic process of investigation; it utilizes the well-characterized design of research synthesis, validated methodology for assessing the evidence and data analysis, which includes acceptable sampling and meta-analysis. CER assembles the best available evidence for ensuring effectiveness-focused, patient-centered and evidence-based medicine, dentistry, nursing and allied disciplines. CER is the critical and timely process of translational healthcare; it evinces the most reliable evidence to compare the advantages, disadvantages and expenditure for an intervention with other available options for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of a clinical condition. CER amalgamates patients, clinicians, caregivers and other stakeholders to

CMS announced that the 2012 Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program Supplemental Incentive Payments are now available for eligible professionals who submitted data for the reporting period of January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012 and met criteria for satisfactory reporting. 2012 eRx Supplemental Incentives are provided to those eligible professionals (EPs) and group practices that submitted an eRx Informal Review (IR) request that was approved by CMS. The incentive is 1.0% of total estimated 2012 Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) allowed charges for covered professional services furnished during reporting period ...

Objective: We aimed to mine the data in the Electronic Medical Record to automatically discover patients' Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity at discrete rheumatology clinic visits. We cast the problem as a document classification task where the feature space includes concepts from the clinical narrative and lab values as stored in the Electronic Medical Record. Materials and Methods The Training Set consisted of 2792 clinical notes and associated lab values. Test Set 1 included 1749 clinical notes and associated lab values. Test Set 2 included 344 clinical notes for which there were no associated lab values. The Apache clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System was used to analyze the text and transform it into informative features to be combined with relevant lab values. Results: Experiments over a range of machine learning algorithms and features were conducted. The best performing combination was linear kernel Support Vector Machines with Unified Medical Language System Concept ...

Optimizing Data Representation Through the Use of SNOMED CT Author: Bronnert, June; Daube, Julie L; Jopp, Gretchen; Peterson, Kathleen; Rihanek, Theresa; Scichilone, Rita A; Tucker, Vanna Source: Journal of AHIMA Publication Date: March 2014. Electronic health records (EHR) have changed the landscape for data representation. For many years health information management (HIM) professionals have relied on classifications for data representation and the support of clinical documentation. SNOMED CT is a data standard frequently used in electronic systems and has been included in the requirements for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) "meaningful use" EHR Incentive Program. SNOMED CT is maintained and distributed by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). SNOMED CT is recognized throughout the world, and the terminology is available at no cost. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) serves as the US release center and the IHTSDO member ...

The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a program under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and is designed to promote reporting of quality information by eligible professionals. MIPS consolidates elements of existing Medicare physician quality programs-including the Physician Quality Reporting System, the Value Modifier, and the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program-into one streamlined program.. Eligible professionals who do not satisfactorily report at least one Quality measure spanning any time during the January 1-December 31, 2017 reporting period will be subject to a 4% negative payment adjustment (penalty) in the 2019 Medicare Part B Fee Schedule. Surgeons participating in the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (ACSD) can avoid this penalty by consenting to have STS report data on 14 Quality measures to CMS on their behalf. In addition, surgeons could potentially qualify for a small to moderate upward payment adjustment depending on performance and the ...

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Clinical decision support systems can be defined as any software designed to directly aid in clinical decision making in which characteristics of individual patients are matched to a computerized knowledge base for the purpose of generating patient-specific assessments or recommendations that are then presented to clinicians for consideration [1, 2]. They are important in the practice of medicine because they can improve practitioner performance [1, 3-5], clinical management [6, 7], drug dosing and medication error rates [8-10], and preventive care [1, 11-16].. Machine learning (ML) gives computers the ability to learn from, and make predictions on the data without being explicitly programmed regarding the characteristics of that data [17]. It should not be surprising, then, that ML pervades clinical decision support, for two reasons. First, clinical decision support systems are structured such that patients are represented as features which can be used to map them to categories [18]. Second, ...

Serves as the principal advisor and coordinator to the Agency for health information technology and quality. Specifically: (1) Provides support, policy direction, and leadership for HRSA's health quality efforts; (2) serves as the focal point for developing policy to promote the coordination and advancement of health information technology, including telehealth, to HRSA's programs, including the use of electronic health record systems; (3) develops an Agency-wide health information technology and telehealth strategy for HRSA; (4) assists HRSA components in program-level health information technology and health quality efforts; (5) ensures successful dissemination of appropriate information technology advances, such as electronic health records systems, to HRSA programs; (6) works collaboratively with States, foundations, national organizations, private sector providers, as well as departmental agencies and other Federal departments in order to promote the adoption of health information ...

2015 provisional data for the United States •In 2015, chikungunya virus disease became a nationally notifiable condition. Cases are reported to CDC by state and local health departments using standard case definitions. •As of July 14, 2015, a total of 224 chikungunya virus disease cases have been reported to ArboNET from 34 U.S. states for 2015 (Table 1 & Map). All reported cases occurred in travelers returning from affected areas. No locally-transmitted cases have been reported from U.S. states. •A total of 94 chikungunya virus disease cases have been reported to ArboNET from U.S. territories (Table 2). All reported cases were locally-transmitted cases reported from Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. •Table 1. Laboratory-confirmed chikungunya virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by state- United States, 2015 (as of July 14, 2015) •Table 2. Laboratory-confirmed chikungunya virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by territory - United States, 2015 (as of July 14, 2015 ...

During the 2003--04 influenza season, influenza activity in the United States began and peaked earlier than usual and was more severe than the previous three seasons. Moreover, a substantial number of laboratory-confirmed, influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported in the United States. Because no similar national data were collected previously, whether this number of pediatric deaths represents a change from previous seasons is unknown. One modeling study estimated that, during 1990--1999, approximately 92 influenza-related deaths occurred annually among children aged ,5 years (2). In June 2004, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) voted to make pediatric influenza-associated deaths a nationally notifiable condition. CDC is working closely with CSTE to implement reporting. Beginning with the 2004--05 influenza season, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that all children aged 6--23 months and close contacts of children aged 0--23 ...

The Rise of Electronic Health Record Adoption Among Family Physicians. Imam M. Xierali , and colleagues Background Electronic health records (EHRs) are generally expected to improve the quality of health care, lower health care costs, and provide patients with more involvement in their own health care. Achieving these benefits, however, depends on clinicians' use of the technology. This study estimates uptake of EHRs by US family physicians and other outpatient doctors, and looks at EHR adoption by state. What This Study Found Adoption of electronic health records by family physicians has doubled since 2005, reaching 68 percent nationally in 2011. Family physicians are adopting electronic health records at a higher rate than other office-based physicians and are likely to exceed 80 percent penetration by 2013 if the current trend continues. State-level analysis, however, indicates significant variation in EHR adoption, from a low of 44 percent in North Carolina to a high of 88 percent in Hawaii, ...

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The initial performance period for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) began on January 1, but it is not too late to avoid a negative payment adjustment in 2019.. If your practice chose not to submit full or partial data before the October 2 cutoff date, you can still submit data for one quality measure, OR one improvement activity, OR the four required ACI measures and avoid the 4% negative payment penalty in 2019.. Reporting as little as one measure for one patient in the quality category of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) by Sunday, December 31, will position you better for future value-based payments. Failure to report any data in 2017 will result in a negative 4% payment adjustment to Medicare Part B claims in 2019.. Although time is running out, you can still Pick Your Pace by testing your data system. Read a practice scenario to better understand the test option.. ...

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