Bernie Monegain
First there was Yale-New Haven Hospital, the 944-bed primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. There is also the children’s hospital and the psychiatric hospital. Most recently, the health system added the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, a $467 million, 14-story paragon of patient care and safety, of environmental virtue – and of information technology.
Orlando Health is rolling out a Web-based decision support checklist tool to assist physicians with diagnosis decisions.
A new bipartisan bill aims to ensure that multi-campus hospitals that employ and show meaningful use of health IT systems receive incentive payments that reflect the higher costs of implementation.
While healthcare providers are making progress toward 5010 compliance, many are lagging behind the timeline set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to results from the HIMSS 5010/ICD-10 Industry Readiness survey.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a three-year demonstration $3 million grant aimed at reducing birth-related injuries. The grant supports quality improvement and data analysis initiatives.
Certification of electronic health records is the last piece of the government's healthcare information technology puzzle that needs to be put in place - and it can’t come soon enough.
People want to be informed and asked for consent before deciding whether to share their genetic information in a federal database, according to a Group Health study that bills itself as the first to ask patients about sharing their data.
Maine's HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange, has selected Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider to help the HIE expand.
President Obama's recess appointment of Harvard Medical School professor Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is drawing praise from healthcare IT leaders across the country even as his detractors paint him as a champion for socialism and healthcare rationing.
In this NewsMaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain discusses John Glaser's eleven months as adviser to ONC chief David Blumenthal.