Interoperability
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
Health information technology has the power to drive advances in personalized medicine that will offer better-targeted treatments - and save the health system money - according to a new report from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings.
CIOs told a federal panel Tuesday about the roadblocks they have faced on their way to achieving meaningful use of electronic health records. Among those who testified before the Implementation Workgroup of the federal Health IT Standards Committee were five members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
Charles E. Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind. has been named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS.
A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach and governance have identified the top seven trends in healthcare information privacy for 2011.
"This year, significant strides were made in health information technology," David Blumenthal, MD, the national health IT coordinator, wrote in his blog detailing health IT achievements for 2010.
Six technologies, whose impact has been measured by hospitals, can improve workflow and communication for nurses while boosting patient care, according to analysts.
The Alaska eHealth Network, Alaska's statewide health information exchange, has tapped Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider, with the purchase Orion's HIE solution. AeHN will deploy the technology as a hosted, software-as-a-service model.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is establishing several "communities of practice" to help its Beacon program establish clinical decision support technologies, care transitions programs, and pharmacy solutions and tools in healthcare improvement projects.
The White House has called for a "universal exchange language" to enable healthcare providers to share health information in real time, in order to modernize and coordinate diagnosis and treatment while incorporating privacy and security of personal data.