December 20, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
The dramatic December 19 announcement by Allscripts that its CEO, Glen Tullman, had resigned, and that a replacement for Tullman had already been named, capped a year of drama, not only for the Chicago-based software vendor, but for all of healthcare and healthcare IT. A look back at a year of whirlwind developments.
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 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 David Raths
blog
Health Story is supporting a project team within HL7 that is working to create a standard for “Patient Authored Documents” using the HL7 CDA standard.
October 22, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
Another year is rapidly drawing to a close. But, before the year-end holidays there is that “little” event in Chicago after Thanksgiving called the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) annual meeting (http://rsna.org/Annual_Meeting.aspx). For anyone who has attended, they will know that it is a huge event that is next to impossible to cover despite spanning almost a week. I am trying to put together my “wish list” for what I need to see this year.
October 16, 2012 Gabriel Perna
blog
At the Digital Health Conference this week in New York City, hosted by the New York eHealth Collaborative, David Brailer M.D., chairman of Health Evolution Partners and the former National Coordinator for Health IT, gave a rousing speech about the past and the future of the industry.
October 16, 2012 Joe Bormel
blog
More than 214 people have been diagnosed with meningitis after receiving a tainted injection. The drug was contaminated with a fungus. Meanwhile, there's been another contamination event going on in the media related to healthcare IT. The writers of two articles conclude the benefits of HCIT are wildly overblown and represent a fanciful initiative that should be shut down. We look into this meningitis outbreak and its HCIT implications to help disprove their conclusions.
October 15, 2012 David Raths
blog
Healthcare executives in California have reason to be skeptical that another new organization leading statewide health information exchange programs will make faster progress than previous iterations. But the new team, let by the highly respected Kenneth Kizer, M.D., appears to be getting off on the right foot.
October 10, 2012 Pamela Dixon
article
As meaningful use challenges the industry on meeting deployment deadlines, it is becaoming clear that Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need help. As the Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs) has become more and more engaged, we see the interaction between these key IT players expanding and continuing to evolve. This is where the future of Healthcare IT is being built. The responses of two surveys conducted by executive search firm SSi-SEARCH, one with CIOs and the other with CMIOs, help to clarify each perspective as the interaction between these two key players moves forward.
October 8, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has spoken out against the recent call by four House Republican leaders to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to “immediately suspend the distribution of incentive payments until [the Department] promulgates universal interoperable standards.” HIMSS says too much progress has been made to the adoption of EHRs and the exchange of health information to suspend the incentive program.
September 28, 2012 Joe Bormel
blog
In Part 1 of this blog, we discussed the fact that the approaches we used to achieve Stage 1 of Meaningful Use may not be sufficient to move forward to achieve Stage 2. Here in the final installment, I’ll provide some detailed examples of why scalability will be a key to success in Stage 2. And in the end, the most important factors will be understanding and communicating your own local practice experience.
September 27, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
There is a degree of complexity and issues facing healthcare providers as they wrestle with the changing regulatory environment. Both facilities and equipment providers are wrestling with moving off of Windows XP as support is quickly ending. It is more extensive than the operating system, as browser versions can be just as big a problem. It is sort of a catch 22 though. If IT vendors begin delivering applications that are supported on newer operating systems/browsers, but the facility’s update plans are not consistent, will the consequence be an inability to deploy technology necessary for ARRA/MU compliance?
