Healthcare IT News
Lisa Gallagher, HIMSS senior director of privacy and security, isn't particularly optimistic about providers' ability to prove patient data is safe. Asked to assign a letter grade to the security situation in U.S. hospitals, she says, "probably a C."
For the IT team at EKCITA HIE, it was an exhilarating end to an impromptu challenge – the challenge posed by the country’s top champion for interoperable healthcare, no less.
Joyce Sensmeier, HIMSS vice president for informatics, started her career ay Palos Community Hospital in Shaker Heights, Ill. It was not long before she was charged with computer training for the hospital.
Ed C. Cruz, CIO of the Bureau of Information Technology for Guam's healthcare information exchange, explains the direct secure messaging aspect of the Guam HIE in the event of a natural disaster in Guam, while Charles J. Knell III, PMP, Practice Director & Support Contractor for HHS demonstrates how HHS works with the Guam HIE to achieve coordinated care in such emergency scenarios.
Phil Humbert, Technical Director of Ekahau, teams up with Shawn Worthman, VP of Gojo Industries (makers of Purell sanitizer), to demonstrate their new hand hygiene compliance technology and discuss the importance of the application in professional medical environments.
Sphere3 CEO Kourtney Govro presents Aperum, a dynamic new reporting tool which collects data about each patient's hospital stay and produces reports measuring a hospital's commitment to patient satisfaction.
Tamara Grassle, GM of Centricity Perinatal at GE Healthcare IT, shows us Centricity Perinatal Connect, a module that provides simultaneous viewing of multiple "fetal monitoring strips" and integrates with existing EHRs.
Cristine Kao, Global Marketing Manager of Carestream, takes us through a detailed demonstration of the Carestream Vue Cloud.
National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan has submitted her resignation, effective late June 2012.
We sit down with Tom Giannulli, MD, CMIO at Epocrates, to demo Epocrates' new iPad EHR, one of only a handful of dedicated iPad EHR offerings at HIMSS12. Dr Giannuli walks us through some of the EHR screens, explains how physician practices can begin using the EHR, and tells us how the Epocrates EHR will help physicians meet meaningful use requirements.