Meaningful Use Stage 1 The government has paid $400 million in meaningful use incentives to physicians and hospitals so far, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official told the Health IT Policy Committee Aug. 3. To date, about 77,000 providers have registered for the program aimed at prom...
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Hospitals and health systems are scrambling to become meaningful users of certified electronic health record technology within their own entities, but what’s the next step to share health information after that step? The answer for many organizations will be health information exchanges. HIEs...
Read More →Together, the American Diabetes Association, the CDC and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology are developing a new health initiative to help increase the use of information technology for the prevention and management of diabetes. A 3-year capstone project...
Read More →Healthcare Technology Online was a media sponsor of the NG Healthcare Summit in Scottsdale, AZ last week — a distinction that provided me with the opportunity to attend the event in person. This invitation-only conference gathers Healthcare CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and other technology leader...
Read More →MAXIMUS, Inc. (NYSE:MMS), a leading provider of government services worldwide, announced today that it is now offering eHealth Literacy Services to help state and community programs meet the communication and engagement challenges facing consumers and providers using the new health information techn...
Read More →More than 20 per cent of healthcare CIOs say they plan to significantly increase spending on IT in 2011, eight percentage points more than last year, according to an Ovum survey. In a new report the independent technology analyst unveils the results of its latest healthcare Business Trends Survey, w...
Read More →New Jersey’s health care system is in bad shape. Costs are high, quality is mediocre and doctors have been slow to adopt information technology that would make care more efficient. That was the consensus at a conference in Trenton on Tuesday of health policymakers and stakeholders, convened by ...
Read More →Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it is creativity that brought information technology into medicine. While some advances such as telemedicine, and electronic medical records are now used widely, it is still the gadget-friendly specialists who have slowly brought these devices by the han...
Read More →Dubai, UAE; May 15, 2011: InfoFort, an Aramex company and the MENA region’s leading records and information management solutions provider, today announced plans to introduce a new Secure Data Destruction service to its wide portfolio of solutions that have data security, confidentiality and s...
Read More →www.telegram.com(Source) By Dr. JudyAnn Bigby and Rick Shoup In doctors’ offices across Massachusetts, endless rows of filing cabinets are being replaced by electronic health records that give our physicians easy, secure access to lab results and other critical patient information. With complete m...
Read More →Imagine this scenario: You’re a family physician who’s admitted a man to the hospital with an acute myocardial infarction. You’ve run all the cardiac enzyme levels, done the initial ECG, and now he’s stable–for the moment. So you head home for the night. But in the bac...
Read More →Today’s healthcare IT infrastructure is experiencing a proliferation of IP devices—“the internet of things,” said David Finn, HIT officer at Symantec and former vice president CIO at Texas Children’s Hospital, during a Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) webinar...
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