This Week's Healthcare News
Fierce Health IT
Poll: Patients should be allowed to make EHR updates, but not have full access
Mar,5, 2013
by+Susan D. Hall
Most U.S. doctors believe patients should be able to update their electronic health records, but only 31 percent say patients should have access to their full health record, according to a new poll by Accenture.
While the survey results were largely consistent across 3,700 doctors surveyed by Accenture in eight countries, including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the United States--U.S. physicians were the most open to patients updating their own records.
The U.S. physicians said patients should be able to add into their records demographic information (95 percent), family medical history (88 percent), medications (86 percent) and allergies (85 percent). And 81 percent said patients should be able to add some clinical updates, such as new symptoms and self-measured metrics, including blood pressure and glucose levels. Forty-seven percent, however, believe patients should not be able to update their lab test results.
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Med City News
Health IT leaders initiate alliance to better track patients and their healthcare encounters
Mar,04,2013
by:+ Stephanie Baum
The announcement by McKesson, Cerner, athenahealth and Allscripts that they have formed an alliance to advance the exchange of patient information with two other health IT companies was greeted with a mixture of optimism, bemusement and skepticism from an industry accustomed to the spectacle of splashy announcements at the annual healthcare IT conference HIMSS.
The goal of the CommonWell Health Alliance, which also includes Greenway and RelayHealth, is to take what these electronic medical record vendors are doing in different parts of the country and bring it to a national level. It sets out to help developers and providers link and match patients as they move through the healthcare system. It will also get patients’ permissions to share data in and adhere to HIPAA requirements.
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Modern Healthcare.com
Study ties employer wellness initiatives to steep drop in hospital stays
Mar,4, 2013
By:+ Melanie Evans
One of Missouri's largest employers saw a sharp, rapid drop in hospital visits by workers and their families for costly and chronic conditions after insisting employees in its most popular, generous health plan enroll in wellness initiatives. Outpatient costs, meanwhile, increased almost as much as hospital costs fell.
The results, published in the journal Health Affairs, found an estimated 41% drop in hospital stays between January 2004 and December 2006 for stroke, heart disease (hypertensive and ischemic), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute pulmonary infections among employees and dependents with health benefits from BJC HealthCare.
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Fierce Health Payer
UnitedHealth reaps rewards of incentivizing members in diabetes program
Mar,01,2013
by:+Dina Overland
UnitedHealth has found success through its Diabetes Health Plan, which has helped the nation's largest insurer improve the health of members with diabetes while simultaneously lowering healthcare costs.
For the diabetes program, UnitedHealth has applied its value-based purchasing approach, plus added incentive payments, modernized the benefit design and included next-generation care management. "We put all this together for a more holistic approach," Sam Ho, UnitedHealth's executive vice president and chief medical officer, told AIS Health.
And that approach is working--healthcare costs for members participating in UnitedHealth's diabetes program increased at a 4 percent slower pace than for a control group of non-participants.
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