Showing posts with label information systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label information systems. Show all posts

Saturday, January 11, 2014

Obamacare Giving Big Boost To Georgia's IT Industry

Obamacare Giving Big Boost To Georgia's IT Industry by Jim Burress, WABE in Kaiser Health News.

Even with the opposition of the Georgia governor, Georgia healthcare technology firms are profiting.

(1)  According to a technology official quoted in the article, Alpharetta Georgia has as many tech companies as ____________.


Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Information Technology: Critical Link In Accountable Care

How 3 ACOs Use Technology To Survive by Alex Kane Rudansky.  Information Week/Healthcare.  July 17, 2013.

(1)  Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) pay providers to ______________ rather than by the ______________________.

(2)  Electronic Health Records in a ACO allow multiple docotors to Mange Patient care from ___________________________.

(3)  How does "decision support" for physicians contribute to cost savings?

(4)  Why is "patient engagement"  important to ACOs.

(5)  Since some physicians feel that EHRs slows them down, there is a continuous effort to ___________________________.

(6)  Patient care rosters are used to _____________________.

(7)  Quality metrics are important because they determine ________________.

(8)  Information management tools used  for fee-for-service are inadequate for the continuous management of ______________.

(9)  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services stated in a report that ACOs had not delivered on ______________________.

(10)  Patient engagement systems see to insure that the patients ___________.