As cancer care providers know well, the landscape of healthcare delivery is changing in complex and dramatic ways. Two related trends are driving this change: the shift among payers to value-based reimbursement and rapidly evolving patient expectations. As a result,...
Gena Cook
New Research on Patient Portals: Is Your EMR the Safest Choice?
There is a lot of news lately on the adoption of patient portals. And for good reason, the deadline for adopting and using a patient portal to meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements is 2014, which is quickly approaching. Patient portal adoption and active use is...
10 Tips to Marketing Your Patient Portal to Your Patients
Now that you have a patient portal, it’s time to start thinking about how to make your patients aware of this new service. Patients will want to use this new service, but many will look to you, their healthcare team, to guide their usage. Your promotion of the...
Better Clinical Outcomes and Lower Costs Proven with Patient Engagement
It is universally accepted that we have an unsustainable and broken healthcare model. It’s also becoming more and more a priority to engage patients in the their care as a way to improve healthcare. New Rules Require Physicians To Provide Patient Engagement Many...
Technology’s Role in the Oncology Medical Home
New care models, such as the Oncology Patient Centered Medical home, are being piloted to provide coordinated care across organizations to reduce costs and improve care. This will require new systems to track performance for quality measures that may be tied to financial incentives for improved care.
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Criteria
How the Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria differs from Stage 1; more patient engagement and increased access to personal health information.
Past, Present and Future of Patient Engagement
What is patient engagement, why is it important, and how can health IT make it easier for oncology providers to engage patients in their care?
Using Health IT to Achieve Patient Centered Care
Navigating Cancer CEO Gena Cook provides insights into the trends and issues that will impact patient centered care in community oncology practices this year, and what part health IT will play.
Patient Portal Integration with Unlimited Systems
Navigating Cancer and Unlimited Systems Partner to Provide Cancer Clinics with IT Interoperability to Attain HITECH Act Incentives
Navigating Cancer Patient Engagement Portal Receives Certification
Navigating Cancer’s patient engagement portal has received the federal government’s approval as a certified electronic health record modular solution.
Oncology Patient Centered Medical Home
How the medical home concept can be applied to community oncology clinics, the important role technology plays, and a case study of the first oncology clinic to be certified as a medical home.
Patient Portal: the Gateway to Patient Centered Care and Meaningful Use
To give patients electronic access to their health information, oncology clinics will need to implement a patient portal that integrates with their EMR. More than just a log in page, a patient portal can be an opportunity to engage patients in their care while making your practice more efficient and cost effective.
Meaningful Use Rules: The Basics
Meaningful Use Rules: The Basics Over the past couple of months, I’ve been invited to speak about HITECH and Meaningful Use at a number of oncology state society meetings (Texas/Colorado/Oklahoma/New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama) and at the ACCC annual...
Social Media tools improve healthy behaviors
A new study from the University of Michigan showed that adding social media features to an internet based walking program significantly decreased the number of participants that dropped out. Seventy-nine percent of participants who used online forums to motivate each...
Movember to remember
Mo'vember to Remember As Movember comes to a close we wanted to share the results of the great Navigating Cancer moustache experiment. With great care the men of NC strategically trimmed, shaved and cropped their mo's into stylish(?) designs to raise awareness for...
NCCN releases new cancer patient treatment guidelines
Patient Guidelines Published for Breast and Lung Cancer The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) today released updated guidelines for breast and lung cancer patients. The guidelines were created to help cancer patients and their caregivers navigate the maze...
Patient advocacy trend continues to grow
It's encouraging to see the growing trend in patient advocacy and personal involvement as reported recently in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, the later focusing on patient's that are actively tracking their health. There are several studies being run at...
Nurse Navigators help cancer patients navigate their care
Nurse Navigators: Dedicated professionals that help cancer patients navigate their care We at Navigating Cancer are proud of the work we do each day to provide cancer patients and their loved ones tools to organize and better communicate with the people that matter...
Meaningful Use Incentives for Cancer Clinics
You may have heard about the “meaningful use” regulation that was approved by Congress on July 13th as part of the HITECH act, laying out the specific requirements for hospitals and clinics that implement electronic health records to receive incentivized payments. The...
Patient Reported Outcomes
I had an interesting conversation this week with Dr. Ethan Basch from Memorial Sloan Kettering. He is a medical oncologist focused on prostate cancer and a leading researcher on the impact and value of patients reporting their treatment side effects and the impact...
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