Mike Miliard
Compliance
A new report from de Beaumont Foundation and Johns Hopkins aims to clear the air with regard to what the privacy law does and doesn't do.
This year's crop of winning departments displayed the highest levels of employee satisfaction in their survey responses.
Electronic Health Records
The health system already uses Meditech's legacy platforms at many of its three-dozen inpatient sites, but is also rolling out the new cloud-based platform at community hospitals in four states.
Electronic Health Records
With federal spending priorities in flux, and VistA technology issues still to be ironed out, one expert parses out what we might expect in the weeks ahead.
Workforce
"You don't know how strong you are until you face a big disaster like this," said the CIO of the only HIMSS Stage 6 hospital in Puerto Rico, which has been powering its EHR with a generator since the storm struck.
Analytics
The agency is calling on programmers and healthcare professionals to develop new tools to prevent addiction and track usage.
Electronic Health Records
Precision medicine is no longer just a buzzword, so teams must prime their infrastructure and educate clinicians now.
Precision Medicine
Here's the bottom line: Physicians, patients, IT staff and researchers all have a role to play.
IT Infrastructure
For research and clinical trials to succeed, it requires clearing some big hurdles – notably technology, financing and human factors.
Claims Processing
As the department work to finalize its EHR modernization contract with Cerner, it extends a smaller deal for centralized claims management.