All Articles In 'Medical Technology'
Chronic Care Management: Technologies to Better Manage Chronic Conditions
The nation’s largest health care buyers – Medicare, state Medicaid programs, large employers, and health plans – are eager for ways to improve the quality and efficiency of chronic health conditions, which drive the bulk of [...]
Patenting Human DNA: SCOTUS Pharma and Biotech Case Preview
Patents form the basis of the pharma and biotech industry, also called the life sciences industry. They give companies an incentive to make large investments in risky drug development and innovations, which have the potential to be ineffective or to [...]
Legality of Pay for Delay Settlements: SCOTUS Pharma and Biotech Case Preview
The 2012 Supreme Court got a lot of attention for its decision to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health reform law in NFIB v. Sebelius. But this year’s court docket will be no [...]
Electronic Patient Communication: Recommendations to Promote Patient-Centered Tools that Improve Care
Communication with patients is at the heart of new primary care tools and models that improve outcomes and lower costs, such as patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) and interactive preventive health records (IPHR). Often, communication means electronic [...]
Electronic Health Records: Profile of Physicians Using EHRs
One objective of the 2009 Health Information for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is to encourage more physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems. Physicians and hospitals that effectively use electronic health [...]
Health IT and Care Coordination: Role of Health Information Technology in Care Coordination
Care coordination is a process that ensures a patient’s health services and information sharing preferences and needs are met. Care coordination, a critical component during the nation’s current shift from a fragmented system toward one that [...]
Medical Devices and the FDA: FDA Taking Longer to Approve New Medical Devices for U.S. Market
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews the safety and effectiveness of new medical devices sold in the United States, and The Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 (MDUFMA) authorizes FDA to collect [...]
Electronic Prescribing: Benefits and Challenges of E-Prescribing
A study funded by AHRQ and published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Transmitting and processing electronic prescriptions: Experiences of physician practices and pharmacies, identifies both the benefits and challenges with electronic prescribing [...]
Medicare Payment Reform and Quality Improvement: MedPAC Recommendations to Congress on Medical Imaging and Poor Quality Providers
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has made 10 new recommendations to Congress regarding Medicare payment accuracy and financial incentives for medical imaging and other diagnostic testing, and quality improvement, targeting the worse performing Medicare providers [...]
Using Health Information Technology for Chronic Disease Management: AHRQ Webinar
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is hosting a free webinar on Using Health Information Technology for Chronic Disease Management. Webinar is set for Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at 11:30 am EST. During the 90-minute conference, participants can watch [...]
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