February 17, 2013 Mark Hagland
HIMSS13, the annual conference of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be held March 3-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. HIMSS’ president and CEO, Steve Lieber, tells HCI’s Mark Hagland what to expect this year—and beyond—at the industry’s largest annual conference.
February 15, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
Many OBs and delivery room nurses can benefit greatly from having access to an “expert opinion” right at the bedside to help them make crucial decisions. Yoni Barnhard, M.D., points to a technology that he says every labor and delivery unit in America should have.
February 15, 2013 John DeGaspari
New technology innovations have clearly captured the imaginations of clinicians and patients alike, and provider organizations will see big demands on bandwidth, which will put pressure on provider organizations to upgrade their IT infrastructure. At the same time, hospitals, medical groups, and health systems will need to continue to maintain data security and privacy. The upshot is that patient care organizations can’t afford not to make investments in infrastructure—often a tough sell to the hospital boards that control budgets—just to stay one step ahead of new demands.
February 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna
In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Associate Editor Gabriel Perna interviews Gerald Creel, the director of emergency department at Shannon Medical Center, a 400-bed hospital in San Angelo, Texas. Shannon won third place in HCI’s recent IT Innovators Award program for implementing an automated radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based system that dealt with the issue of hand-hygiene. As a result of this initiative, Shannon lowered hospital acquired infections by 62 percent.
February 14, 2013 Mark Hagland
One day after the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CHIME named Russell P. Branzell its incoming chief executive officer, Branzell spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding his acceptance of the CHIME CEO position, and his aspirations for CHIME as an organization going forward.
February 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
As many healthcare organizations are in the preliminary stages of their big data initiatives, the next frontier—which involves surveillance and predictive analytics—is littered with more questions and challenges.
February 13, 2013 Gabriel Perna
Jeffrey Woo, M.D., a technologically-inclined internist at a multi-specialty group in Grand Rapids, Mich., talks about why he loves using the iPad for documentation and how he got his 50-to-60-year old colleagues on board with the initiative. He also talks about facing HIPAA concerns head-on in this exclusive interview.
February 13, 2013 John DeGaspari
With the advent of policy-driven changes under healthcare reform, the traditional revenue cycle management practices based on encounter-based billing activities are being swept aside. With that inevitability, provider organizations are considering how to best realign their accounts receivable processes to maximize those revenues that are pegged to data-driven quality outcomes in patient care.
February 12, 2013 David Raths
The health system consolidation is putting pressure on CIOs to deliver clinical integration and back-office efficiencies. And the potential acceleration in a parallel consolidation among health IT vendors holds many implications for the industry.
February 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
James E. Levin, M.D., Ph.D., CMIO at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, died unexpectedly on Feb. 10 while traveling on business. Dr. Levin, 55, was a nationally recognized pioneer in medical informatics, and had helped guide his colleagues at Children’s of Pittsburgh, part of the vast 20-plus-hospital University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health system, through industry-leading innovations in clinical innovation and electronic health record (EHR)-driven clinical performance improvement.
February 11, 2013 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
Direction The federal Health IT Policy Committee met for their monthly meeting this past week in Washington and Meaningful Use Stage 3 was back on the agenda. In under a month, ONC staff culled through more than 500 comments submitted to the Policy Committee that underscored concerns regarding the timing of Stage 3, the growing list of competing priorities for providers and a feeling that more interoperability limitations needed to be addressed.
February 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
Jeff Loughlin, project director at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and executive director of the Regional Extension Center of New Hampshire, shares his perspectives on the current state of EHR adoption among medical groups-and the lessons that have been learned by leaders of the regional extension centers.
February 8, 2013 Mark Hagland
As President Barack Obama re-nominates Marilyn Tavenner, R.N., acting administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to be permanent CMS administrator, industry reaction is uniformly positive; but Republicans on Capitol Hill may or may not help the nomination to move forward to hearings and confirmation
February 8, 2013 David Raths
After hearing public comment on Feb. 6 that its proposals for Stage 3 may overwhelm vendors and providers still grappling with Stages 1 and 2, the Health IT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Work Group went back to the drawing board Feb. 8 to consider alternative approaches.
February 7, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
On Feb. 7, public officials and healthcare IT leaders gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the ongoing success of a New York City IT initiative. Among those speaking were New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, M.D., and CDC Director Thomas Frieden, M.D.
February 6, 2013 Gabriel Perna
Backed by a study from the Office for the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC), researchers at the Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System and the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago (NORC) recently discovered that patients can help make the information in their EHR more accurate. These results were touted in a recent webinar from the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC).
February 6, 2013 Frank Myeroff
Over the past year, my colleagues and I have worked with numerous companies and healthcare facilities and based on their needs and our experience, some things are changing in the way that top talent is recruited, contracted and hired. Here are five healthcare recruiting trends that we see emerging for 2013.
February 5, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
Healthcare Informatics Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal had a chance to speak with Shaun Grannis, M.D., director of the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute, about how INPC uses surveillance to track data and warn public health officials of outbreaks.
February 5, 2013 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy announced that she will be leaving the Agency after ten years on the job. Meanwhile, several healthcare IT practitioners, academics and policymakers met in Washington this week during a joint meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee and Health IT Standards Committee.
February 5, 2013 Pamela Dixon and Steve Nilsen
The sea tide of change, sparked initially by HITECH government mandates, is marshalling new CIO criteria from our clients. What’s driving the Top Ten list of highly sought qualities for CIOs in 2013?
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