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Industry leaders gave a thumbs up for healthcare IT advancement over the past year and offered encouragement for achieving "lofty goals,” at a press briefing June 15 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Massachusetts General Hospital, a 900-bed care center located in the heart of Boston, has been using a new secure file transfer solution that has helped solve one piece of meaningful use.
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to spend $10.9 million to improve HIPAA compliance for VistA, its enterprise-wide electronic health record system.
Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and management System Society (HIMSS), announced will add new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge hospitals' readiness.
Leadership and execution are key to the success of the Allscripts-Eclipsys merger, according to the Allscripts customers, who say the merger presents both challenges and opportunities.
Chicago-based Allscripts, a company focused on selling electronic health record systems to physician practices and community clinics, announced on June 9 it would enter the hospital market by merging with Eclipsys Corp.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has a shiny, new $504 million dollar, 12-story research center where scientists can discover treatments to save the lives of countless children with cancer, brain tumors, mitochondria and a host of other diseases. But this type of life-saving work would be impossible without information technology, says Thomas Curran.
Healthcare system takes on $1.5 billion project in 18 states
It’s one week into summer, and healthcare professionals across the country are anxiously awaiting the final definition of meaningful use. To say they are eagerly waiting would also apply, but anxiously seems more precise because there is plenty of anxiety in the waiting.
Christopher Longhurst, MD, has been named chief medical information officer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. In his role, Longhurst will focus on ways to extend digital data to patients and families to improve the continuum of care, he said.
Clara Maass Medical Center, a 445-bed hospital in Belleville, N.J. will provide emergency medical services at Red Bull Arena, a new 25,000 seat soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J. The medical center will use its emergency department electronic health record on-site to ensure secure exchange of patient information from the arena's medical center to the hospital when needed.