Bernie Monegain
Health information technology will top the agenda at the Mayo Clinic Thursday morning at a news conference led by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
New York State's two federally designated healthcare IT regional extension centers (RECs) kicked off their work in the Big Apple May 13. And then they hit the road to connect with physicians in Long Island, Syracuse, Buffalo, Binghamton, Albany and Tarrytown. The mission to help the docs convert their paper records to digital ones.
Chalk one up the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. Come 2013, the showcase, a popular draw at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference, will be on display and working on all things interoperable year-round a new showroom in Nashville.
The Affordable Care Act offers effective new technology and sophisticated data analysis for reducing healthcare fraud that will build on programs that helped Medicare and Medicaid recover billions of dollars in 2009, according to the government's annual “Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAAC) report.
Beacon Communities offer hope, practical approaches to IT
Everyone knows that interruptions lead to mistakes. For nurses even the smallest of disruption when handling medication could result in a deadly error.
Six leading healthcare systems have formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative to help speed the health care sector toward environmental sustainability. Using information technology and reducing the use of paper is part of a plan that includes everything from air conditioning to carpet purchasing.
With $220 million in hand among them, federally designated Beacon Communities across the country have begun the work of using healthcare information technology to do great things for their communities.
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards group, is recommending changes in the government's draft rules on health IT certification that EHNAC officials say would make the rules stronger.
Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, according to the most recent research by KLAS.