February 11, 2013 Mark Hagland
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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.
January 29, 2013 David Raths
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Setting the stage for the Jan. 29 joint hearing of the federal HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee on health information exchange (HIE) challenges, Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, described how the industry has evolved to “HIE 2.0.”
January 22, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Daniel Bronson-Lowe, Ph.D., senior infection preventionist at Carle, speaks with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal to talk about Carle Hospital's implementation of ICNet, an automated infection surveillance system.
January 22, 2013 Mark Hagland
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HIMSS Analytics' recent press release on the acceleration in the pace of EHR adoption is encouraging, but then again, the numbers could be read in different ways, depending on one's perspective
January 21, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, the leaders of HIMSS Analytics issued a press release announcing significant gains in the percentages of U.S. hospitals reaching advanced stages in electronic health record adoption. What's behind the forward advance?
January 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On Jan. 7, James Turnbull, chief information officer (CIO) at the Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), was named the 2012 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Recently, he spoke with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal to talk about his role as CIO and the current and future state of health IT.
January 7, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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James Turnbull, chief information officer (CIO) at the Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
December 16, 2012 David Raths
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Golden Valley Health Centers, a federally qualified health center system serving the Central Valley of California, describes some of the benefits of persistence with CPOE implementation.
December 5, 2012 Michael Craige
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Rapid improvements in technology, semantic data structures, informatics professional collaboration and sequencing technologies are not necessarily the only gaps needed for the realization of personalized medicine (improving genomic and phenotypic data integration) but these must be taken into account on how best to exploit the opportunities to facilitate personalized medicine.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Perhaps the thought was inescapable in the context of the current presidential election campaign going on right now; after all, the second presidential debate, in which a very engaged pair of presidential candidates had sparred very intensely over a wide range of topics, had just taken place the night before. But I couldn't help thinking about Farzad Mostashari, M.D., as speaking like a political leader when he appeared at the CHIME Fall forum on Wednesday, Oct. 17-and I mean that in a good way.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The National Coordinator for Health IT uses the opportunity to speak to CHIME Fall Forum attendees to exhort his audience forward in the meaningful use process under the banner of reforming the healthcare system for the benefit of patients, families, communities, and the broader society.
October 2, 2012 Ted Reynolds
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Understanding that applying a “big-bang” approach can be counterproductive; that EMR implementations must be clinician-led; and establishing good IT governance, are among the key pieces of advice that Ted Reynolds wants to share with EMR implementation leaders, based on his experience with many implementations over the years.
