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Associate Professor Debra Wolf explains how nurses can harness the power of social media to assist patients and promote their profession. In today’s Internet-driven world, patients are no longer relying solely on their physician to learn more about their health care conditions. Having so much information at their fingertips, patients are in a position . . . → Read More: MEDITECH: Navigating the Health Network  Leave a comment  MEDITECH, Nursing Corner, Recent Items  Associate Professor Debra Wolf, BSN, Chatham University, health care conditions, health network, medical resources, MSN, nursing staff, patients, patientslikeme.org, PhD, physicians, Registered Nurse, reliable resources, RN, social media, starbrightworld.org, WebMD Home care leader Patricia Kelleher outlines the challenges her industry is facing, and urges agencies to advocate for themselves using the power of social media. As the health care industry prepares to serve millions more patients as a result of health care reform, the importance of keeping those patients out of the expensive acute . . . → Read More: MEDITECH: A New Health Care Reality Hits Home Leave a comment MEDITECH, Recent Items Accountable care organizations, ACOs, acute care, ARRA, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS Innovation Center, Executive Director, health care, health care industry, health care reform, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health, HITECH, home care, home care agencies, Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts, home care leader, home care providers, hospital readmissions, key strategic initiatives, Medicare, Medicare cuts, MS, Patricia Kelleher, social media MEDITECH announced a re-organization in their Client Services division in 2010. MEDITECH promoted Leah Farina and Helen Waters to Vice Presidents, intended to represent MEDITECH’s emphasis on efficiency, patient safety, and physician outreach. Watch their videos to learn more about how these new roles help their customers turn goals into reality. Some highlights from . . . → Read More: MEDITECH Executive Video Series: Vice Presidents Leah Farina and Helen Waters Leave a comment MEDITECH, Recent Items 5.5, 5.6, ARRA, ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), Best Practices, better patient outcomes, better tools, chronic disease management, client services, Client/Server, customer stories, EDM, efficiency, Executive Video Series, HCA, Helen Waters, industry news, Leah Farina, Magic, Meaningful use of data, new implementation programs, new initiatives, new methodology, News snaps, patient safety, PCM, physician advocacy, physician challenges, physician outreach, proactive care, Scanning and Archiving, social media, Social media use, Vice Presidents The healthsystemCIO.com site has a new podcast with CIO Will Weider. “Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the . . . → Read More: PODCAST w/Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System CIO Will Weider Ed Bennett’s Hospital Social Networking List indicates that only 762 of over 5,000 U.S. hospitals use social networking. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has been an early adopter, with a medical provider channel on YouTube, over 60,000 followers on Twitter, an active Facebook page that has more than 20,000 connections, and dozens of blogs. They’ve created . . . → Read More: Clinic launches first healthcare-oriented social media school |
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