Guest post by Uwe Heiss, Vice President, RAD – Research Analytics Data
With CMS poised to release Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements in the coming weeks, anticipation is building within the health care IT community.
Stage 2 could potentially be a very big step for health care as we may start to see many of [...]
In a recent issue of JAMA, Sara Singer PhD, MBA and Stephen M. Shortell PhD, MPH, MBA, wrote an informative commentary about a topic that is receiving a lot of attention in the health care industry right now: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs).
In Implementing Accountable Care Organizations: Ten Potential Mistakes [...]
I am pleased to announce that Dynamic Clinical Systems is entering an exciting new phase as we have recruited Mark Kolb as our new CEO (view the press release here). With this move, we are embarking on a more focused, aggressive, expansion of the company through improved sales, finance, and [...]
Continue Reading →One of the great promises made by the introduction of information technology (IT) to health care has been the idea that through IT, clinicians and the patients they care for can better engage in an ongoing interaction that makes each side better informed about symptoms, treatments, expectations and outcomes.
While both clinicians and patients have [...]
Continue Reading →As more and more health care organizations adopt EHRs, attention is increasingly being paid to how best to integrate these information systems into the process of care, and ultimately, how to use them to provide better value and care.
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI) recently released a Continue Reading →
Since 2005, West Virginia Healthcare (WVH), a private, not-for-profit corporation associated with West Virginia University, has used our Integrated Survey System® (ISS) for study management and patient-reported outcomes at its spine center. Today brings the good news that WVH is greatly expanding its use of ISS to include all orthopaedic sub-specialties, including spine, total joint, [...]
Continue Reading →New York Times technology writer David Pogue recently devoted a column to tech tips and tricks that are pretty commonly known, but that he argues aren’t known by as many people as you’d think simply because there isn’t one definitive place to learn all the stuff. Facts like that those “weird, square, pixelated [...]
Continue Reading →Since co-founding DCS in 2004, I’ve heard researchers, care providers, and health care organizations make effective arguments for the adoption of patient reported outcomes, shared-decision making, and other patient engagement tools and technologies.
But a consumer group making the case? And a great one at that? That’s a welcome addition.
In its recently released Consumer [...]
Continue Reading →Once you decide to capitalize on the advantages electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) offer over traditional, paper-based patient tracking methods, the questions begin:
* How will our current work flows have to change and by how much?
* How will our patients respond?
* What will our staff have to do differently and do [...]
Patient engagement and the tools used to achieve it, such as electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), have been steadily gaining prominence as clinicians, researchers and administrators recognize their value in delivering effective and efficient health care.
But now, another group is starting to take notice … one that could play a big role in even further [...]
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