October 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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In the past, I’ve written about how many CIOs from major hospital and healthcare systems are expressing doubts about how cloud computing can be used to provide better care while saving money. While a level of pessimism is definitely there, people like Robert Kaufmann, M.D., from the Kaufmann Clinic, are making me realize the path to that $5.4 billion may be paved with smaller providers, more willing to take a leap into the cloud.
October 17, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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So much of what I’ve learned through my years of interviewing CIOs, CMIOs, and other leaders is that culture change is usually at the heart of healthcare IT innovation. What I learned recently from Stephen J. Dubner, who was the keynote at the 2012 New York eHealth Collaborative Digital Health Conference, is that what incentivizes behavior change is often very hard to predict.
September 28, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Everyone from time to time needs some help. A more-experience hand to help us along, be it in our personal lives, like a piano teacher, a basketball coach, a life coach. Others may need some assistance in their professional lives, perhaps in a work mentor or a skills trainer. What I’ve realized in my personal live, as well as what I’ve been hearing from those I’ve interviewed, is that at one point we all need a little help to move forward on our particular brand of transformation.
September 12, 2012
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The Chicago-based American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), a nonprofit representing health information management professionals, has developed a guide that aims to help consumers understand how to access and use their medical records. The guide, called Understanding Your Medical Record, was posted to myPHR.com, a website launched the myPHR.com website as a resource for consumers interested in maintaining their own personal health records.
June 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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What happens when a health information system isn’t working out and the vendor contract has long since been formalized, finalized, and signed on the dotted line? Experts weigh in on whether you should cut your losses and start the process over, or if you should stick it out.
June 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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A recent report on the growing demand for health informatics workers in the U.S. says there is a changing landscape of skills and backgrounds when it comes to jobs in the field. More employers are looking for people with clinical backgrounds who can analyze data to improve clinical outcomes.
May 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock shares some of the learnings coming out of his organization’s work with client hospital organizations, which includes very granular modeling of the potential effects of the ICD-10 transition on reimbursement for specific hospital procedures and treatments
May 30, 2012
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TechChange, a non-profit company that creates interactive online course and the mHealth Alliance, a non-profit that champions the use of mobile health (mHealth) is going to offer a four-week online certificate course on mHealth, called mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health. The online certificate course will run from Nov. 12 – Dec. 7 and will overlap with the 2012 mHealth Summit in the Washington, DC area.
May 25, 2012
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Researchers at The George Washington University's Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program have launched a website designed to serve as a practical online resource regarding federal and state laws governing access, use, release, and publication of health information. The site, Health Information and the Law (HealthInfoLaw.org), will aim to address the current legal and regulatory framework for health information, as well as changes in the legal and policy landscape that have an impact on health information law and its implementation.
May 22, 2012
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All six of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s academic and community hospitals will be offering a course in ICD-10 readiness for medical record coders. The course, Anatomy & Physiology for Coders, presented by medical record coding, audit, and educational services vendor Barry Libman Inc., is set to be offered at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, All Children’s Hospital, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, and Suburban Hospital.
April 9, 2012
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The State of Wisconsin, recognizing the growth of health IT, is offering a Bachelor of Science in Health Information Management and Technology (HIMT) through a consortium of University of Wisconsin campuses, coordinated by the University of Wisconsin-Extension. The universities are the UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside, and UW-Stevens Point. In addition, UW-La Crosse will contribute courses.
March 30, 2012
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The Orange, Calif.-based CalOptima Regional Extension Center (COREC) has announced one thousand primary care providers have agreed to partake in access services that will help the doctors transition from paper to EHRs. COREC achieved the 1,000-member goal ahead of its self-imposed project timeline.
