Healthcare IT News
Accenture and Plexis have launched a solution designed to optimize the efficiency, cost and reliability of Medicaid Management Information Systems. Accenture’s Public Health Platform introduces a new MMIS option designed to enable states to better adapt to the evolving Medicaid landscape.
The government has already begun planning for meaningful use requirements under Stages 2 and 3 – to be used beginning in 2013 and 2015 – and some stakeholders would like to see the feds raise the ante on quality.
Many Americans believe that U.S. policymakers’ failure to invest more in medical innovation will have a "significant long-term impact" on quality of life, employment and economic growth, according to a new poll. Medical research and innovation is typically linked to the use of information technology.
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
Mobile health applications will be distributed predominantly through traditional healthcare channels by 2015 as opposed to app stores, according to a global survey by research2guidance.
Norton Healthcare will use the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System and Microsoft HealthVault to aggregate and mine data for its Accountable Care Organization initiative.
Communication problems and lack of knowledge are the most frequent causes of medication errors and adverse drug events in primary care practice offices, according to a study of a prototype Web-based medication error and adverse drug event reporting system.
More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opened Jan. 3, Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must use certified EHR technology to be eligible. The government has identified five Authorized Certification and Testing Bodies, or ACTBs.
President Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick sparks controversy.