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HIE Spotlight: The Camden Health Information Exchange
There has been much talk about HIEs in New Jersey, which are in various stages of development and operation. One of these is the Camden Health Information Exchange, which is operating in full swing. NJPCA interviewed Sandi Selzer, Director of the Camden Health Information Exchange to gain a better understanding of how this successful HIE Read More….
Sandi Selzer discusses the Health Information Exchange
Director Sandi Selzer explains the mission of the Camden Health Information Exchange and describes progress toward planned initiatives. She explains how physicians in the community interact with the HIE and what the HIE has in its sights as top priorities for the remainder of 2012. Sandi also talks about Camden’s unique model and how it Read More….
NJ Spotlight – NJ’s Inner Cities Ready, but Waiting, to Formalize Medicaid ACOs
Inner city hospitals and physicians have been waiting for months for the federal government to roll out regulations that will enable them to join together in Medicaid ACOs designed to cut costs while improving care primarily through reduced ER visits. Nevertheless, these medical officials are not simply sitting on their hands. Despite the fact that Read More….
Op Ed: Camden Coalition’s Model for High Needs Patients
There is a lot of buzz about reducing hospital readmissions. But what does a readmission look like? And what will it take to provide the care needed to avoid readmissions? We arrived at the ICU to find our patient sedated and intubated. Yet only 10 days earlier Mrs. P was strong enough to navigate the halls in Read More….
NJ’s health information exchanges share electronic medical records
Medical data is starting to be exchanged electronically in New Jersey via “health information exchanges” whose members are hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers working in the same region of the state. Often, these providers treat the same patients; the goal is to improve outcomes by giving them access to information on all the care Read More….
Panel examines health-care reform
Some 20 months after the historic passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, where are we? A panel of experts gathered at The Inquirer on Wednesday to review the impact of the law so far, and speculate about its future. The media, of course, tend to focus on political squabbling and efforts to undo the Read More….
Medical Hotspotting: When treating patients like criminals makes sense
Last month, Stanford University Medical Center quietly announced plans to open a new clinic in the spring of 2012. That is not unusual. What is different is that while the clinic will one day be open to the community, it will initially serve only employees of Stanford University, Stanford Hospital (and clinics), and their family Read More….
Coalition awarded $3.45 million grant to improve diabetes care in Camden
A health coalition in Camden won a $3.45 million grant Thursday to strengthen diabetes care in a city where rates far exceed the national average, adding to medical costs and detracting from residents’ quality of life. The grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation is intended to enhance and deepen a three-year-old, citywide diabetes collaborative, officials Read More….
Press Release: Bristol Meyers Squibb Grant
CAMDEN, NJ – In celebration of American Diabetes Month, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers today announced the launch of their Integrated Diabetes Care (IDC) Program, a new initiative aimed at transforming the city’s primary care practices into high-quality, evidence-based health centers. The $3.45 million award from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation will allow the Coalition to build upon Read More….
Newark coalition strives to treat the weak and uninsured outside the ER
NEWARK — The woman pulls her little red hybrid up to the curb, across the street from a gutted house with gang graffiti over the boarded-up windows. A man with a cane ambles off the sidewalk, opens the door and gets in. He rolls up his sleeves and warms his cold hands on the car’s Read More….
