Bernie Monegain
Partners HealthCare and its Center for Connected Health is offering its Partners Step It Up program to elementary students at six Boston public schools this year. The program incorporates technology, educational feedback and a team-oriented virtual foot race to raise awareness about the importance of daily activity and good health.
Secretaries Panetta and Shinseki, of the DoD and VA respectively, are amid a series of meeting to talk about issues of import to both departments, including the joint iEHR and VLER iniatives.
When Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki met at the Pentagon earlier this week, EHRs was one of the topics on the table.
The results of the health IT incentive program aimed at driving the adoption of electronic health records by hospitals and physicians have been "breathtaking," Farzad Mostashari, MD, asserted in his keynote address at HIMSS12 on Thursday. "We've made more progress in two years than we've made in 20," said Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology.
Albany Medical Center has set the stage to exchange patient clinical data between its electronic health record and the EHRs of its affiliated physicians. With one large physician practice connected last month, Albany Med has more in the pipeline.
IT workers hoping to improve their standard of living in 2012 will not likely find relief through annual salary raises, according to a new report from Computer Economics. But, it might be a different story for IT professionals in the healthcare space, where demand is high.
St. Joseph's Medical Center in Stockton, Calif., a member of Catholic Healthcare West, has rolled out a new clinical communication and information delivery system.
Nine million Kaiser Permanente patients can now access their own medical information anywhere in the world on mobile devices through a mobile-optimized website, Kaiser executives announced today.
No one ever suggested that achieving meaningful use of electronic health records would be easy - or quick, or simple. And it hasn't been. Mostly, it's been hard, slow and complex.
A think tank with a healthcare task force chaired by former Senators Tom Daschle, a Democrat, and Bill Frist, MD, a Republican, is advocating for improved and better-used health information technology. Among the group's recommendations is "robust" data exchange.