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Hospitals profitable but skimp on charity care in North Carolina
Many of North Carolina's hospitals are reporting healthy profits, but have been skimping on charity care for their poorest patients, the McClatchy News Service reported . For example, UNC Hospitals
Verizon, Duke team up on telehealth, mobile engagement
Verizon and Duke University will be working together for the next few years on a variety of mHealth projects, including telehealth, mobile patient engagement and remote patient monitoring. The
Duke, Verizon team to develop apps for mass market
Duke University and Verizon have agreed to collaborate on developing health IT products that will improve patient outcomes and decrease health costs. The initiative will focus on ways to increase
ONC training materials help to close health IT worker gap
The teaching materials used to train health IT professionals in community colleges have been made publicly available, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced last week.
Former OMB director Orszag among keynoters to talk finance at ANI
Peter Orszag, President Obama's first director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be among the keynote speakers at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2011 ANI Conference in
Clinical decision support needs more than just alerts to improve quality
In its final rule for "meaningful use" of EMRs, CMS defined clinical decision support as technology that gives healthcare professionals "general and person-specific information, intelligently
New apps make smartphones more valuable than stethoscopes to some docs
A growing number of physicians would rather carry a smartphone than a stethoscope, reports the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News. "You've got a whole medical library right in the palm of your hand,"
SPOTLIGHT: Does meaningful use fit with organizational strategy?
In the rush to achieve "meaningful use" of EMRs, have you taken the time to see how various components of health IT fit into organizational strategy? That's the question posed on our Hospital Impact
Amazon Kindle shows promise as low-cost means of accessing medical literature
The iPad may be garnering all the headlines, but don't count out Amazon's Kindle just yet. Just like Apple's blockbuster device seems to be more than a tablet computer, the Kindle is more than just
Study: Mental illness more common than previously projected
On the whole, mental health issues are given short shift in most med-surg settings, with few providers trained to recognize or handle mental health problems efficiently. Here's a finding, however,
