February 6, 2013 Frank Myeroff
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Over the past year, my colleagues and I have worked with numerous companies and healthcare facilities and based on their needs and our experience, some things are changing in the way that top talent is recruited, contracted and hired. Here are five healthcare recruiting trends that we see emerging for 2013.
February 5, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report from SearchHealthIT’s Don Fluckinger, Cerner Corp. (Kansas City) and McKesson (San Francisco) are in talks to form an alliance that would make their EHR patient data interoperable. SearchHealthIT cites unnamed sources and says that the announcement could come as soon as the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2013 annual conference, held March 3-7 this year in New Orleans.
February 5, 2013 Pamela Dixon and Steve Nilsen
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The sea tide of change, sparked initially by HITECH government mandates, is marshalling new CIO criteria from our clients. What’s driving the Top Ten list of highly sought qualities for CIOs in 2013?
February 4, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On the heels of a Jan. 15 report by Pew Research Center revealing that 35 percent of Americans use the internet to figure out a medical condition, an independent survey conducted by medical marketing firm Vanguard Communications found that only one-third of physicians in three American cities offer direct website help to healthcare consumers trying to understand their symptoms.
February 4, 2013 Gwen Darling
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Whether it's your first time to attend the HIMSS conference, your fifth (as in my case), or your umpteenth, if you are heading to HIMSS13 as an active job-seeker, there are a few items you should not leave home without. For the rest of us who are passive job-seekers (and that should include all the rest of us), this list may prove to be useful, as well.
January 30, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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EHealth Insider (EHI), a U.K. independent health IT news, research, and events firm, has announced that it has formed a partnership with Orem, Ut.-based research firm KLAS Enterprises.
January 29, 2013 Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, the Health Research Institute at PriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting firm released a new report, “Top health industry issues of 2013: Picking up the pace on health reform.” PWC’s John Edwards, director of the consulting firm’s healthcare advisory division, shares his perspectives on the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT leaders right now. Here’s a hint: think data and information systems, not IT per se.
January 29, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report from the Austin, Texas-based Mercom Capital Group, a communications and consulting firm, healthcare IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled nearly $1.2 billion in 163 deals in 2012, compared to $480 million in 49 deals in 2011 and $211 million in 22 deals in 2010.
January 29, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Alerts and reporting are two of the most challenging aspects of medical oncology, in addition to being the tools providers are least happy with overall, according to according to a new report from Orem, Ut.-based KLAS Research.
January 28, 2013 Mark Hagland
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The winning teams in this year's Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program exemplify the spirit of pioneering innovation in our industry
January 28, 2013
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With massive change sweeping across healthcare, there has never been a time in which internally driven innovation has been more important. That’s why it is our privilege and pleasure as the editors of Healthcare Informatics to be able to recognize innovation pioneers every year through our Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program.
January 28, 2013 John DeGaspari
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Beaumont Health System, a three-hospital regional academic health system in the Detroit, Mich. area, is engaged in a process improvement plan involving the Kaizen performance improvement methodology. Kaizen, also known as continuous improvement, is a long-term approach with a goal of achieving small, incremental changes in processes to improve efficiency and quality.
