Healthcare IT News
Catholic Health East headquartered in Newtown Square, Pa. will deploy evidence-based clinical decision support order sets at its 18 hospitals.
Sutter Health to tackle healthcare-acquired infections
Sutter Health in Sacramento, Calif.
Kevin Hutchinson serves on the federal Health Information Technology Standards Panel, advising President Barack Obama's national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.
June
3-6 – Society for Imaging Informatics 2010 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.
ClaimTrust, a leading provider of revenue cycle tools and services for hospitals launched InSight Audit, a fully hosted, Web-based solution aimed at providing healthcare organizations with one central location for managing all medical claims audits.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to the Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthcare and health IT strategy.
Jonathan Teich, MD, an eMergency physician and internist, expects meaningful use requirements to give clinical decision support a boost.
Doctors who use file-sharing software could be putting their patients' medical information at risk, according to a new study.