Healthcare IT News
Mac McMillan:
President and CEO of CynergisTek
Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee
Former Chair of the HIMSS Information Systems Security Working Group
Dogu Celebi:
Chief medical officer, payer and government solutions at OptumInsight
Formerly developed disease and care management programs for CIGNA
George C. Halvorson:
Chairman, CEO of Kaiser Permanente
Convened the Care Connectivity Consortium
Member of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Jiajie Zhang:
Co-director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Associate dean for research, professor, UT Health School of Biomedical Informatics
Principal investigator, ONC’s SHARP program for patient-centered cognitive support
Aneesh Chopra:
Chief Technology Office of the United States
Served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology, January 2008-April 2009
Previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank
Charles Christian
Charles Christian:
CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind.
2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award
Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS
Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors
Just as some hospitals in low-lying areas of Manhattan were preparing to evacuate on Friday afternoon and others all along the East Coast were readying for the wind, rain and power outages expected from Hurricane Irene, Boston-based Iron Mountain, an information management services company, offered 10 tips on how best to weather the storm.
With hospitals "raising the bar" to meet meaningful use requirements, new positions are being created within IT departments that have a focus on quality and data, says one consultant.
Qualifying for meaningful use incentives and choosing the right electronic health record system are among the top 5 challenges medical practice managers are facing today, according to new research from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), which represents 21,500 members.
Health IT company Allscripts plans to double its Chicago workforce, adding 300 new jobs by the end of 2012. It's good news for Chicago, and Allscripts gave Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel first dibs on the June 28 announcement.