Bernie Monegain
As National eHealth Collaborative CEO Kate Berry sees it, patient care will improve with the secure, easy and sustainable exchange of medical records between healthcare providers. To that end, NeHC, a public-private partnership focused on accelerating progress toward widespread, secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange, last month released a roadmap for establishing and operating successful health information exchanges. The map addresses building, operating and sustaining the HIEs.
Among the projects that will benefit from the government’s new “big data” project is the National Institutes of Health’s "1000 Genomes Project Data Available on Cloud.” and also "Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering,” which the NIH is undertaking with the National Science Foundation.
There are myriad ways to cut costs in hospitals, even while improving patient care.
Healthcare IT is not lacking innovation these days. It seems like everyday there’s a winner of a new app contest, or yet another challenge is launched. One recent announcement, though, stood out among the rest.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder recently highlighted the Obama Administration's efforts to prevent Medicare fraud, through the Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).
The complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services as a publicly available data set, the largest collection of human genetics available to researchers worldwide, free of charge.
Healthcare information technology, data mining and data analytics are driving rapid advances in personalized medicine across the country and around the world. The work being done today on this front is but a thin slice of what is yet to come, experts say, and many predict vast advances in the next four to five years.
Caregivers who talk with the patient about their care before, during and after care tend to improve outcomes and avoid readmissions. Technology can help improve how it's done -- and documented.
Citing the high and growing demand for well prepared healthcare IT professionals, universities are offering new programs to help educate and train the workers to fill the jobs. Among them are schools in Rochester, N.Y. and in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Several organizations are joining together to make available services for safety net providers across the country. The intent is to help them manage the increasing demands for quality cost and outcome.