John Andrews
With PACS and other diagnostic imaging files quickly diminishing healthcare data storage capacities, providers are scrambling to find a much larger repository to handle their needs. More and more, that means gravitating toward the cloud, IT vendors say.
While stubbornly high unemployment continues to drag on the rest of the economy, the healthcare industry can’t seem to find enough qualified people to fill its information technology needs. Unlike other sectors where hiring remains muted, health systems are crying out for talent in IT, information management and coding, employment specialists say.
A newly formed clinical data repository project between the American Academy of Family Physicians and Nashville-based Emdeon promises to be much more than just “a data dump,” its key designer says.
Personalized medicine needs a lot more exposition before it comes part of the mainstream, but a group of dedicated professionals is determined to make sure that it arrives as soon as possible.
Can meaningful use really be condensed into an elementary school exercise? Perhaps not in reality, but it works as an effective analogy for achieving success, says one interoperability specialist.
If any era demanded healthcare IT consultants, it’s this one. There is a greater need for expertise in more areas today than at any time in the past.
Several years into the national interoperability initiative, it’s fair to wonder if the healthcare industry is making as much progress as expected when it started under the George W. Bush administration.
Financial rewards are being used as the carrot for healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, achieve meaningful use and include quality reporting and tracking in outcomes measurement.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.
Meaningful use criteria gets the ball rolling.