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When it comes to healthcare analytics, hospitals and health systems can benefit most from the information if they move towards understanding the analytic discoveries, rather than just focusing on the straight facts.
Deloitte, which bills itself as the world's largest health consultancy, and Intermountain Healthcare, known around the world for its pioneering work in healthcare informatics, are teaming up to help transform healthcare.
It pays well to be a chief information officer in healthcare these days, according to a report released by CHIME, which finds that industry CIOs earned an average base salary of $208,417 in 2012.
Clinician-to-clinician Direct messaging is now available across New York as part of the Statewide Health Information Network of New York. Albany Medical Center, one of the busiest trauma centers in Upstate New York, will be the state's first provider using the Direct service, which integrates into providers' electronic health record systems.
NJ Gov. Chris Christie said as much on Tuesday -- and he's merely the latest anti-ACA Republican Governor to acquiesce with the federal government's offer to pay for more Medicaid enrollees.
As healthcare IT continues to impact the delivery of patient care, academic institutions are improving their HIT degree programs. Nowhere is this trend more evident than on University Row at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Convention & Exhibition.
San Diego-based Humetrix has expanded the ways patients and physicians can exchange health records via its iBlueButton app using not only iPhones and iPads but also Android devices with secure Quick Response code to transfer the patient's Blue Button record between systems.
Two new surveys find big variations in physician use of health information exchange. While many large practices are thinking about analytics, patient tracking and performance data for ACOs, some smaller practices were unaware of their state-based HIEs or the Direct Project.
Humetrix expands its mobile health information hub to arm Apple and Android devices with access to various Blue Button accounts and, in so doing, moves patients closer to the center of their own health records.
As the healthcare IT workplace evolves, occupational needs change. Consequently, career management specialists say, new job titles are being created to address the demands of the new environment.