Bernie Monegain
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will take the lead on development of a new healthcare information technology platform – inspired by the iPhone.
The government will announce "soon - it should be very, very soon" which 15 communities of the 130 that applied will be awarded Beacon Community grants, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal, MD, said Thursday.
Chicago-based HIMSS – the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – will take an anchor spot in a new Medical Trade Center in Nashville that is being billed as "a global headquarters for healthcare events."
Vish Sankaran, who has headed up the Federal Health Architecture program to much acclaim from industry insiders, will step down to seek other opportunities. Sankaran sent an e-mail this morning to friends and colleagues.
Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization's annual meeting in Toronto.
Oregon Health & Science University, a recognized national leader in health information technology education, will expand its course offerings with the $5.8 million in government funds it was awarded recently.
Standards organization Health Level Seven International is urging the United States to move full speed ahead with its programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology - with what the group calls "reasonable and important modifications."
Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.
Data and technology company Thompson Reuters has released its 10 best practices for building a statewide health information exchange - from focusing on tactics to taking baby steps.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.