August 22, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
Robert Vietzke, vice president, network services, of Internet2, a bold nationwide and indeed international initiative to lay the groundwork for a revolution in 21st-century computing, speaks exclusively with Healthcare Informatics regarding what he and his colleagues are doing that has the potential to transform healthcare across multiple dimensions.
August 16, 2013 John DeGaspari
blog
With open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace set to begin October 1, it’s worth taking a look at how informed the public is on state-operated insurance exchanges. The answer to that depends on the state where you live.
August 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
MHADegree.org, an online community for people seeking a master's degree or career in healthcare administration, has released a ranking of the 50 hospitals that best use social media.
July 23, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
article
Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health records (EHR) incentive program has put the onus on medical groups to further engage their patients. One such medical center in Florida has taken steps to do just that, and more.
July 19, 2013 David Raths
article
In August 2013, the California Department of Public Health will launch an immunization-messaging portal that it says will help providers qualify for meaningful use incentive payments. To qualify for meaningful use payments, immunization information will need to be submitted in HL7 format from a certified EHR.
July 18, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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In May, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) announced it was creating a Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) to move forward with individualized precision medicine. With such a massive endeavor come challenges and questions, and HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal was able to speak with UCSF Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) Michael Blum, M.D., who has been tapped to lead the CDHI.
June 18, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
An initiative on Facebook single-handily led to a 21-fold increase of people who registered themselves as an organ donor in a single day, researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently discovered. The results of the study indicate that social media may be the perfect way to battle the static number of donors in the country.
May 30, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to new research from the University of Texas at Austin, Twitter is not only a popular source for receiving and sharing new information about vaccines, but it can also be a reliable one as well.
May 16, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Houston Northwest Medical Center—a 339-bed teaching hospital—received the top ranking in the Raleigh, N.C.-based Axial Exchange’s Texas Patient Engagement Index (PEI), which ranks U.S. hospitals based on an analysis of publically available data in three categories: personal health management, patient satisfaction and social media engagement.
April 17, 2013 By Gabriel Perna
news
In a policy paper, released in a recent issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) has provided a series of ethical guidelines for physicians using social media and other forms of electronic communication to interact with patients. The ACP and FSMB say the use of social media requires physicians to “consider how to best protect patient interests and apply principles of professionalism to online settings.”
February 28, 2013 John DeGaspari
news
The results of a data analysis by Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente revealed significant differences in how physicians, health reporters and policymakers talk about health, which the organization uses to call for greater alignment among key influencers around pertinent health issues impacting U.S. citizens.
February 26, 2013 John DeGaspari
news
Lower-income patients want to communicate electronically with their doctors, but the revolution in health care technology often is not accessible to them, due to inadequate health information services within the health care clinics they frequent, according to a survey by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
