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Use of health information technology in home health and hospice agencies: United States, 2007
OBJECTIVE This report provides updated estimates on use of electronic medical records (EMRs) in US home health and hospice (HHH) agencies, describes utilization of EMR functionalities, and presents novel data on telemedicine and point of care documentation (PoCD) in this setting. DESIGN Nationally representative, cross-sectional survey of US HHH agencies conducted in 2007. MEASUREMENTS Data...
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In response to rapidly rising home health spending from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, the Congress enacted major changes to Medicares home health payments in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA).1 These and subsequent changes culminated in the implementation of a prospective payment system (PPS) on October 1, 2000, which provides incentives to home health agencies (HHAs) to operate eff...
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Health information technology (HIT) adoption has been recommended as a method to improve care coordination and promote patient safety. Home health agencies can use HIT to improve coordination of care provided in multiple locations. The purposes of this study are: 1) to determine the EMR adoption rate and use of point of care technology among a US sample of 1,036 home health/hospice facilities, ...
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This article examines the political agendas of public sector and organized private sector interests concerned with policies affecting uncertified home care agencies in three metropolitan areas. Using a telephone survey, the study found substantial differences across these groups in both the frequency with which they work on given issues and in some key attitudes. Overall, respondents were most ...
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OBJECTIVE The use of information technology (IT), such as computerized medical records (CMR), has been proposed as a method for increasing the efficiency of delivered services, raising the level of the quality of care provided, and decreasing the number of medical errors. Research on IT and CMRs in health care has focused primarily on hospitals and physicians' offices, and there currently exist...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Therapy
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0031-9023,1538-6724
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/48.2.131