We all know that Americans spend too much money on healthcare – more than twice as much per patient as people in other industrialized countries, on average – but we don’t necessarily know who to blame. A study published in Tuesday’s edition of Archives of Internal Medicine offers up a sur...
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Many would say that controlling costs is the toughest challenge facing the U.S. health-care industry. But safeguarding patient information in a digital world isn’t proving to be much easier. Consider this: In the two years since the Department of Health and Human Services mandated public di...
Read More →The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has recognized clinical informatics as a medical subspecialty, an ABMS spokesperson told FierceHealthIT. The long-awaited elevation of clinical informatics to an official branch of medicine signals the coming of age of the field, which has become...
Read More →While the accountable care organization (ACO) model may not be formally pursued from a Medicare ACO designation standpoint, the majority of providers agree that accountable care is where the future of healthcare is going, according to a new report from market researcher KLAS. The Orem, Utah-based...
Read More →With sweeping health reform came a laundry list of technology promising to save time, better the environment, and improve patient care. And as more of it is implemented, we learn what works best and what … doesn’t. From unproven mobile platforms to legacy EHRs, some healthcare IT shou...
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Timothy Stettheimer, CIO for St. Vincent’s Health System in Birmingham, Ala., has more confidence in IT certifications than referrals and in-person interviews when it comes to hiring. “How do you know you’re hiring a good person? You can get a referral, but so what? Someone can...
Read More →The healthcare IT (EHR and interoperability modules) and mobile health (or mHealth) industries are traveling on similar paths. They are both technologies in evolution that are sorely needed. EHRs have been mandated by health reform legislation. MHealth is still seen as an interesting curio...
Read More →The White House has released a presidential proclamation designating the week of Sept. 11-17, 2011, as National Health Information Technology Week. The week was created to emphasize the importance of secure and efficient information systems, such as electronic health records and electronic prescri...
Read More →Healthcare leaders can face a tough choice when it comes to joining a health information exchange now or waiting to see how things shake out a few years down the road. There are two schools of thought: Get in now, either to achieve meaningful use or help craft the HIE to your liking, or wait a...
Read More →Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, proposed new rules that would expand the rights of patients to access their health information through the use of health information technology. Specifically, the new rules would empower patients by allowing them t...
Read More →It’s been overlooked — it’s received very little coverage by the popular press — but it’s worth repeating: one benefit of the health care reform legislation will be: enhanced “job mobility.” Employee mobility is one of those terms that probably most Ameri...
Read More →Liaison Technologies, a global provider of cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today that it is joining with other U.S. companies in celebrating National Health Information Technology (NHIT) Week, September 12-16, which mar...
Read More →Healthcare organizations are immersed in implementing IT systems to meet requirements under provisions of the HITECH Act. However, one thing they may not be anticipating is the surge in the number of healthcare information technology jobs they will need to fill once these systems are in place. I...
Read More →On August 16, 2011, Dr. Alfred Hamilton from the School of Public Health and Health Service at George Washington University and Dr. Jay Conyers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) moderated a symposium on the George Washington University campus titled, “Th...
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Understandably, the attentions of health-policy watchers are focused intently on the implementation of the landmark 2010 health reform law. The future of the law seems as unsettled as ever. “Obama-care” draws sharp barbs in the nascent presidential-nominating race. Meanwhile, appella...
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