December 18, 2012 Richard R. Rogoski
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Moving forward in so many areas, including under meaningful use, will require the establishment of genuine interoperability across the inpatient-outpatient divide, and in particular, far more automated connectivity between hospitals and physicians, including those doctors in private practice. But building bridges in this area is far more complex than it first appears, say healthcare IT leaders who are guiding their organizations forward say the healthcare IT leaders who are guiding their organizations forward nationwide.
December 12, 2012 David Raths
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Kicking off the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) third annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 12, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., told attendees that despite all the progress they have made to transform the healthcare system, the journey is really just beginning.
December 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
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As Rebecca Grant, director of imaging services at the 625-bed Huntington Hospital, and her colleagues moved through the process of selecting a new PACS vendor, interoperability was the most important factor in their decision-making. Grant explains the various elements in a complex informatics imaging environment, and the factors that influenced her and her colleagues' important decision in this critical area.
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.
December 3, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Lisa Khorey, vice president of enterprise systems and data management at the University of Pittsburgh Medical center (UPMC) health system, shares her perspectives on what made her and her colleagues move forward on a five-year, $100 million enterprise healthcare analytics initiative
November 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
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If any consultant could claim the mantle of “sage of imaging informatics,” it might well be Joe Marion, who has attended and participated in more than 30 RSNA annual conferences. Joe sat down on the Wednesday of RSNA with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland to share his perspectives on both this year's conference and on the current evolution of imaging informatics more broadly.
November 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In healthcare, there are many places where that saying applies. For instance, the journey of an engaged population begins with a single informed patient. But how do you get from the beginning to the end – or at least some semblance of engagement? NeHC has created a guide to do just that.
November 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Meeting this morning during RSNA 2012 with executives from the Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, one thing was clear: those patient care organizations with an imaging informatics strategy—perhaps almost any imaging informatics strategy??—are already light years ahead of their peer organizations whose senior executives have no such strategy.
November 6, 2012 Pete Rivera
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Information Technology (IT) is always one of those things that are often taken for granted during mergers. From an operational view, it’s all just “computers,” right?
October 22, 2012 John DeGaspari
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How does voice recognition technology affect patient care quality and efficiency? One proponent for its use is Bud Lawrence, M.D., emergency medicine physician director of risk management at the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, a 250-bed hospital and level-2 trauma center in Valencia, Calif. About three years ago the hospital made speech recognition part of its implementation of its electronic health record.
October 11, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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Micky Tripathi, founding president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MeHC), participated in a state health information exchange (HIE) panel on Oct. 3 at the Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs iEHR and HIE Summitat the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. Senior Editor Jennifer Prestigiacomo caught up with Tripathi after the panel to get his thoughts on the struggles of statewide HIEs and what steps Massachusetts is taking to break the mold.
October 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Cornerstone Health Care’s CIO Tim Terrell talks about the mission-critical IT foundations that will be required for medical groups to participate in the major healthcare reform-related programs, and how important analytics, and the implementation of IT solutions for care coordination, will be going forward
