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The to-do list for the year ahead for the members of the College of Health Information Executives (CHIME) is long and complex - the more reason to form partnerships, says one of its leaders.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), with 1,400 CIO members, is urging the government to allow hospitals and physician practices more time to assess Stage 1 progress and to better prepare for Stage 2 meaningful use objectives.
Meeting meaningful use is taking precedence in health IT budgets for 2011, according to hospital executives polled in a recent survey.
The Health Information Trust Alliance has designated PricewaterhouseCoopers US as a Common Security Framework Assessor, qualified to evaluate and certify security standards of CSF-related services.
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.
There are many ways to go green. At Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a 550-bed teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School, John Powers, vice president of information systems, chose green tech.
In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program found that sites targeted at diabetes patients varied in both the quality of information they provide and the safeguards they take for protecting patient privacy.
Cloud computing has become a hot topic among healthcare CIOs, who are divided about its benefits. One expert separates what he considers to be the most common "myths" of cloud computing from the potential risks.
Increasing electronic access to patient records, support for meaningful use incentives and privacy safeguards are some of the health IT priorities that doctors and patients can agree on, according to a national survey released Monday by the Markle Foundation.
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.