November 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
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 28, 2012 David Raths
blog
Among key meaningful use challenges for physician offices are vendor product nuances, workflows that must be redesigned, and staff roles that needed to be redefined.
November 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Keith J. Dreyer, M .D. not only sees the future of automation-facilitated radiology practice; he has been instrumental in bringing clinical decision support tools to the radiologist masses nationwide. In a frank discussion with HCI's Mark Hagland, Dr. Dreyer shares his perspectives on where radiology practice is going, and what radiologists-and healthcare IT leaders-need to understand about the near future in healthcare.
November 16, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released the beta version of certification tool, Cypress, which tests EHRs and EHR modules in calculating Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). ONC says its certification program "provides a defined process" to ensure certificated EHRs meet the adopted standards and criteria of meaningful use.
November 12, 2012 Michael Kamer
article
Saint Luke’s Health System, a 10-hospital network providing primary, acute, tertiary and chronic care throughout the Kansas City, Mo. area, implemented a single sign-on solution paired with thin clients that it says gives its physicians more face time with their patients.
November 12, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
article
While the power dynamics will appear similar in the 113th Congress as it did in the 112th Congress, the environment in which the new Congress operates looks entirely different. Sequestration and other fragments of the "fiscal cliff" must be dealt with over the next several weeks and it would seem probable that Republicans look to use parts of the ACA as bargaining chips to get the bigger deal done.
November 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
In the wake of the Nov. 6 federal elections, Blair Childs, senior vice president for public affairs at the Charlotte-based Premier health alliance, spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding the election’s implications for healthcare policy and healthcare IT policy
November 7, 2012 Gabriel Perna
article
Reactions have begun to pour from across the healthcare industry, in response to the re-election of President Barack Obama, and the maintaining of the House of Representatives by the Republicans and the Senate by the Democrats. According to Robin Raiford, director of research and insights at The Advisory Board Company, the re-election of President Obama along with the lack of af power in Congress, is good news for those leaders driving healthcare IT.
November 7, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
On the morning after the 2012 November elections, CHIME’s Senior Director of Advocacy Programs, shares her perspective on the implications for healthcare IT
November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
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.
October 24, 2012 Terri Gocsik
article
Electronic medical record (EMR) implementations are becoming more commonplace as hospitals and health systems race to meet governmental deadlines for achieving meaningful use. Yet implementation of an EMR in anesthesia services (referred to as an Anesthesia Information Management System or AIMS) remains low, and it’s not unusual that this practice area is one of the last departments to transition from paper to the electronic world.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
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.
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