January 5, 2013 Mark Hagland
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When Tina Buop transitioned from her role as the CIO of a very successful multispecialty medical group in the East Bay region in the San Francisco Bay area to becoming the deputy CIO and CTO of a federally qualified health center, she knew that she was making a huge leap professionally and personally. She shares what she’s learned so far in her new position, and insights around resources and leadership.
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The ONC's deputy national coordinator for programs and policy repeatedly emphasized the links between the requirements under the meaningful use program and the federal government’s broader goals for healthcare reform and population health.
September 19, 2012 Pete Rivera
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Based on a WSJ Opinion piece EMR software is “is generally clunky, frustrating, user-unfriendly and inefficient.” Although I will not disagree with this “generalization,” I do take exception with the articles naïve view that Health IT systems have not improved patient health.
September 17, 2012
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On Sept. 13, the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, announced the release of its new certification programs for vendors handling the electronic prescription of controlled substances (EPCS).
September 11, 2012 Pete Rivera
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You cannot make a blanket policy to say that the coding software will be used exclusively. This is like telling a pilot to trust their instruments, although the ground is getting closer and closer.
August 27, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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In this podcast, Robin Raiford, research director in the Advisory Board’s IT Strategy Council, will be sharing her analysis and key takeaways from the Stage 2 meaningful use final rule. Raiford is a clinical informatics and meaningful use expert and industry speaker. She also specializes in clinical decision support and computerized provider order entry (CPOE). Raiford is the creator of the Meaningful Use Stage 1 Final Rule, The White Board Story which is a summary view of all the regulatory documents surrounding meaningful use and the EHR incentive program.
July 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The landscape around pharmacy information system implementation has changed so much in the past five years, it’s virtually unrecognizable from half a decade ago. And of course, that means that healthcare IT leaders, now compelled forward by meaningful use under the HITECH Act, and by data collection, reporting, and analysis mandates under federal healthcare reform, are working in a continuously changing environment.
June 25, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Jeff Livingston, M.D., a partner at the Irving, Texas-based MacArthur OB/GYN, an obstetrics and gynecology practice, is one of the leading advocates of provider-based social media interaction in the industry. In an exclusive interview, he shares how he has created a vibrant, successful community with patients on Facebook and Twitter, as well as through a HIPAA compliant portal.
June 8, 2012 John DeGaspari
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Electronic communication is certainly changing the way physicians and patients interact, and if there is a single area where its impact is most evident, it is in telemedicine. This is worth paying attention to: in a report released last month, WinterGreen Research, Inc., a market research firm based in Lexington, Mass., forecast that the market for telemedicine devices and software will increase from $736 million in 2011 to $2.5 billion in 2018, implying a wide reach that will encompass a growing number of physicians and patients.
The question is what affect telemedicine will have on the quality of care and the relationship between physicians and patients. Alan Rosenthal, M.D., a board-certified internist who practices in Monterey, Calif., provides his perspective as a primary care physician.
May 21, 2012 The Editors of Healthcare Informatics
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Healthcare Informatics, a New York City-based magazine providing leadership and strategy for healthcare IT leaders, is proud to officially announce the 2012 version of its unique, industry offering: the Healthcare Informatics 100, a compilation of the top health IT companies based on HIT revenues from the most recent fiscal year. For this year’s list, McKesson Technology Solutions (Alpharetta, Ga.), was the top ranked company, marking the fifth year in a row that the diversified healthcare IT software solutions vendor has sat atop the list.
April 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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CSC's Erica Drazen shares exclusively with HCI's Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland her analysis of, and detailed figures on, the very large number of healthcare reform- and meaningful use-related deadlines facing hospitals and physicians in the several years. The bottom line: very, very few in the industry realize either the sheer volume or the level of complexity of these overlapping deadlines and time-sensitive requirements.
February 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
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During the Monday session on performance measurement and CDS, Paul Tang, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and is vice chair of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, gave his perspective on the approach taken with Stage 1 meaningful use, and the direction for future stages.
