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Doctor-patient relationship is moving online, but challenges remain
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With 68 percent of American adults now using the Internet to search for health care information, it's no surprise that many also want digital access to their doctor. Whether they have that option
will depend heavily on doctors' ability to get paid for the service. Online physician consultations already are being used to treat patients for non-emergency conditions and to answer questions about minor ailments, symptoms or medications. More
Joint Commission pushes back telemedicine requirements until March 2011
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The Joint Commission's plan to implement CMS telemedicine standards for hospitals (both acute and critical access) has been pushed back until March 2011, according to an official announcement from the accrediting body. Originally slated for implementation on July 15, 2010, the Joint Commission had intended to add new elements of performance that would bring the organization's requirements more in line with CMS standards for
telemedicine services, specifically for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers.
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Dermatology could serve as model for e-visits
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A recent study finds that remote online visits with dermatologists achieved equivalent clinical outcomes for acne patients. Also, doctors and patients ranked the e-visits as convenient and time-saving and said they could be used as a model for chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. The study, conducted by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, was published in the April issue of Archives
of Dermatology.
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Pharmacy groups call for DEA to
clarify new rule on e-prescribing
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Four pharmacy organizations say they support the Drug Enforcement Administration's efforts to allow
electronic prescribing of controlled substances but called for further clarification on the new e-prescribing rule, Modern Healthcare reports. On March 31, the DEA published in the Federal Register its interim final rule on e-prescribing of controlled substances. According to DEA public affairs officer Barbara Carreno, the rule took effect June 1.
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System checks Rx compliance via cell phone, RFID
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 A recovering heart surgery patient forgets to take his post-operative medicine. That can be dangerous; but doctors and family can know within hours, not days, because of a system that links the pill bottle to a cell phone and the Internet. The telemonitoring system, eMedonline, is being tested at Nyack Hospital in Nyack,
N.Y., with patients recovering from congestive heart failure.
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Telehealth beginning to go mainstream, but long road lies ahead
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Telehealth has gone mainstream: An article on telehealth recently was published in The New York Times, CMS proposed new rules for telehealth credentialing, and UnitedHealthcare hired a telemedicine
veteran to head up a new unit. Datamonitor estimates that the telehealth market in the U.S. and Europe will increase from $3 billion in 2009 to $7.7 billion in 2012 — growing over 2.5 times in the next three years. Meanwhile, an Intel survey of health providers and experts found that 89 percent believe telehealth will transform health care in the next 10 years.
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VA contest seeks innovations in remote monitoring, telehealth
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The Veterans Affairs Department will give up to $80 million in contracts to the industry winners of the third round of the VA Industry Innovation competition, officials have announced. The goal of
the competition is to stimulate ideas to increase veterans' access to VA services, to reduce or control costs, to enhance VA performance or to improve the quality of service VA delivers to veterans, according to a notice published June 7 on the Federal Business Opportunities website.
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University of Louisville patient data mistakenly posted publicly online
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A University of Louisville database with the names, social security numbers and other personal information of 708 dialysis patients was accessible via the Internet for more than a year, university
officials announced recently. The information was accessible on the university's Kidney Disease Program website beginning Oct. 1, 2008, and it wasn't noticed that it was accessible by the public until May 17 of this year. University officials have disabled the database, which was not accessible through a direct link from the Internet but was accessible on the site because it did not include a "log-in" prompt, said Mark Hebert, director of communications and marketing for the university.
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Open records pilot project looks to reinvigorate patient-physician dialogue
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Allowing patients access to their personal medical records is a decades-old idea that predates electronic medical records. However, the idea has yet to catch on. Susan Frampton, president of Planetree, says the association of patient-centered care health care providers has for the last 20 years asked its members to allow patients access to their medical records, but with limited results. Of the 150 acute care hospitals in Planetree,
only about 25 percent have opened their records to patient scrutiny.
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Illinois hospital targets patients with Amazon.com-style marketing
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CPM Marketing Group, a provider of health care customer relationship management strategies, announced on June 8 the first implementation of its Instant CRM system at Edward Hospital & Health Services in Naperville, Ill. The real-time behavioral targeting solution lets the hospital tailor its Web content to current and prospective patients based on individual health needs.
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