In an effort to reduce the use of paper-based health records, Arizona State University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) is collaborating with the Arizona Health-e Connection (AzHeC) in a project to aid the adoption of electronic health records. The $1.5 million grant to ASU is a sub-a...
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www.beckershospitalreview.com When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released the proposed rule for accountable care organizations at the end of March, health information technology was recognized and emphasized as a central component. Technological aspects of the proposed rule are clo...
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A major theme in healthcare IT lately has been the value of unstructured healthcare data, which can be mined using natural language processing and search technologies to produce meaningful knowledge. Although the transformation of unstructured data into structured data is a new concept in healthcar...
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By George V. Hulme, CSO April 27,2011 Spurred by millions in incentives to promote widespread Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption, the healthcare industry is engaged in one of the broadest, most rapid digital-record rollouts in IT history. Started in force with the Health Information Technology...
Read More →For the information-technology industry, health care represents the next frontier for job growth. Federal stimulus dollars for digitizing medical records will mean that IT professionals and hospitals and doctors’ offices must work closely to bring about this next big transformation for the hea...
Read More →By Nicole Lewis InformationWeek The MetroChicago Health Information Exchange (HIE), which will help clinicians share the digitized medical records of more than 9.4 million patients, is being constructed by the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC) with the help of Microsoft, CSC, and Health...
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Five partner organizations recently issued an updated 2011 edition of A Clinician’s Guide to Electronic Prescribing. This “how-to” guide helps health care professionals make informed decisions about how and when to transition from paper to e-prescribing systems. First created in 2...
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The healthcare information technology report forecasts the size of global healthcare information technology market over the period 2009 – 2014. The report analyses the key trends of the market, and segments the global healthcare information technology market by components and into various geograp...
Read More →Michael Bihari, MD, former About.com Guide About.com Using health information technology to manage your personal health information is an important part of our changing health care system. You and your doctor can better manage your health care by improving how you communicate with each other and how...
Read More →HIMSS News New York Radiology Alliance – NYRA Bedford Hills, NY by Jonathan Schwartz, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, NYRA Three years ago, New York Radiology Alliance, formerly S&D Medical, struggled with the administrative inefficiencies of accessing the disparate systems of ...
Read More →By Kay Tillow for OtherWorlds.org – More than a year after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, our nation’s health care delivery and coverage remain the disgrace of the industrialized world. There are more than 50 million uninsured Americans. Ev...
Read More →By Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet Contributor Diabetics can now manage their blood sugar and insulin levels using a new smart phone application and database search engine instead of having to keep track of everything in their heads, eliminating the risk for errors. This week HealthVision Solutions, LLC rele...
Read More →By Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet Contributor Almost one hundred thousand people die every year of infections they acquired in the hospital. But almost 2 million hospital patients get them. It’s easy to see why. Statistics show that health providers only clean their hands the way they are supposed to less...
Read More →By Deborah Hirsch, TMCnet Contributor The world used to dream of a paperless universe. Today we use more paper than ever. But a new technology may make this dream a reality for healthcare providers, allowing for better patient care and reduced practice costs. Called digital pen technology, it’s so...
Read More →Proponents have argued that the full utilization of electronic health records will serve to improve patient care and safety and simplify compliance and regulation of the U.S. healthcare system — at a cost savings — if the roadblocks to success are identified and appropriately handled. Th...
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