Bernie Monegain
New healthcare IT jobs are part of the Jobs Initiatives for Rural America, which was announced by President Obama on Aug. 16 at the White House Rural Economic Forum. The plan includes making Department Health and Human Services (HHS) loans available to help more than 1,300 critical access hospitals recruit additional staff, and helping rural hospitals purchase software and hardware to implement health IT.
At first glance, one might think the workforce management market in healthcare is old hat. Everyone has the technology, right? No one uses Excel documents to figure out who should be working where and when, right?
Health insurer Highmark, one of the largest Blue plans in the nation, intends to help physicians get on board with electronic health records and practice management tools needed for the docs to qualify for the government’s meaningful use incentives.
The Board of Directors of the American Health Information Management Association has appointed Lynne Thomas Gordon as its new CEO. She will assume the post on Sept. 29, days before the launch of the organization's annual conference, which begins Oct. 2 in Salt Lake City.
Cardiology IT systems can be the source of frustration for many a hospital IT chief and especially for the end users.
Hospitals appearing in the August online ranking of U.S. News Best Hospitals 2011-12 used HIMSS Analytics' Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale to select the top 140 hospitals. All hospitals on the list rank at Stage 6 or Stage 7 on the EMRAM.
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help Indiana University researchers better understand how technologies can help underserved aging adults remain at home.
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the evacuation of hospitals in low-lying sections of Manhattan in anticipation of Hurricane Irene's landfall, North Shore-LIJ health system began removal of patients from two of its hospitals and set up an emergency command center.
As the accreditor selected by the Office of the National Coordinator to oversee the Permanent Certification Program for Health Information Technology, the American National Standards Institute announced Thursday it's open for business.
HHS grants funds to states to boost prevention, screening and public health infrastructure, including immunization registries and other systems.