July 9, 2013 Mark Hagland
If you're a healthcare PR or marketing professional wanting to pitch successfully to the editors at Healthcare Informatics, please do read on. I want you to be successful--really, I do.
July 9, 2013 Gabriel Perna
Since 2012, crowdfunding has gone viral. Its explosion into mainstream consciousness has begun to touch the world of healthcare IT, but how effective is it in getting an idea or product off the ground? The answer to that question is still very much a mystery.
July 8, 2013 David Raths
HealtheConnections' transition required a lot of planning and forethought, a close working relationship with the new vendor on data migration and project management, and the RHIO team's confidence that it could manage the transition without upsetting data providers or users.
July 4, 2013 M. Wayne Craige
It’s Monday July 8 and you woke up feeling sick, and you know you better see your doctor. In the office, your doctor looks you over, listens to your symptoms, but before he prescribes a drug, the doctor said, “Lets get a sample of your blood so that I can take a look at your Deoxyribonucleic Acid”. You heard me right, your DNA!
June 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
It was fascinating to watch the dialogue unfold at the annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium this week, as CMIOs shared with each other their challenges, frustrations, and hopes, at a time when CMIOs and other medical informaticists are faced with an avalanche of demands and requirements
June 28, 2013 Gabriel Perna
We’re one year removed from the historic ruling by the Supreme Court, upholding President Obama’s signature domestic legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. While a lot has changed in the year since then, it’s clear that a lot of work is still ahead of us.
June 27, 2013 Joe Marion
Achieving Meaningful Use can be a daunting process. Imaging Elements has some innovative technology that can improve the process for radiology groups.
June 27, 2013 Mark Hagland
An AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium session entitled “The C Suite and the IT of the Future” triggered a lively discussion, and led to a healthy debate over whether or not creating new titles and positions is the best way to bring about transformational change in healthcare
June 27, 2013 David Raths
The privacy requirements for business associates are changing. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule that became effective March 26 started the clock running on the transition. Starting in September, business associates and their subcontractors must follow the privacy provisions of a business associate agreement and the HIPAA Security Rule, and they face legal obligations and enforcement risk if they do not.
June 26, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
With all of the knowledge gained at last week’s Healthcare Financial Management Association's (HFMA) annual conference in Orlando, Fla., there was one message conveyed that helped put it all together: finance professionals, particularly CFOs, need to lead the way towards the new healthcare.
June 25, 2013 David Raths
Perhaps what these promotions illustrate is that healthcare organizations are starting to appreciate the project management and people skills demonstrated in large IT implementations and their importance to core business operations.
June 24, 2013 Gabriel Perna
We’ve come a long way with telemedicine and yet it’s in its “relative infancy,” a recent report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) revealed. That’s too bad because as the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) showed me, there’s a lot of opportunity out there for it to do more.
June 20, 2013 David Raths
Some CIOs blame told KLAS they blame meaningful use for Meditech 6.0’s immaturity, believing that Meditech would have had more resources to improve the product if it were not devoting so much time to meeting certification requirements.
June 14, 2013 John DeGaspari
It’s a fact of life that everyone’s reflexes slow down with age, and most of us lucky enough to live to advanced age and still have a driver’s license eventually will need to consider giving up the privilege of driving. After all, driving is intertwined with all kinds of effects of aging—not only slower reflexes but poor eyesight, inability to make quick decisions, or side effects of medications. According to a recent study, clinicians are often the first to bring up the topic with elderly drivers of handing over the car keys, and I think healthcare IT can play a role in helping drivers make the transition.
June 13, 2013 Gabriel Perna
With the issue of government transparency becoming the topic du jour on the heels of the recent NSA controversy, it’s fair to ask: have the CMS and HHS released enough claims data on hospital outpatient charges? Some, like athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., don’t seem to think so.
June 13, 2013 David Raths
Vendors in the analytics-as-a-service space include Apixio, Explorys and Humedica. “This is going to be the way healthcare will consume big data,” said IDC Health Insights' Cynthia Burghard. “It is just too complicated for the average healthcare organization to invest in.”
June 12, 2013 David Raths
What if you could hire a team of software engineers to start from scratch in developing an IT system to fit the needs of your organization? Does that sound too good to be true? That is exactly what JenCare Neighborhood Medical Centers is doing.
June 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
An April article by leaders at McKinsey & Company looks at the future of big data in healthcare, and frames that future in terms of large investments that span the gaps in patient engagement, care management, clinical performance improvement, payment reform, and other areas. Is their broad vision one that CIOs and CMIOs can translate into reality?
June 11, 2013 Joe Marion
The SIIM 2013 Annual Meeting presented some change from the past, but still needs to evolve to truly represent imaging informatics beyond radiology.
June 11, 2013 Pete Rivera
The ONC recently announced two systems from EHRMagic decertified for Meaningful Use. These systems were not capable of performing certain functions deemed necessary for Meaningful Use. This not only impacts the physicians on this system, but is a shot across the bow for all systems that said they could capture and report Meaningful Use data, but really used smoke and mirrors.
