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The ONC Health IT Standards Committee relayed their stage 3 recommendations via Beth Israel Deaconess CIO John Halamka, who said meaningful use stage 3 have got to account for standard maturity.
Leaders of healthcare policy encouraged the industry to move ahead faster during a keynote address at the National Health Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4 "...help us speed up the rate of change," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius encouraged conference attendees.
Responding to a challenge from the department Secretaries, the DoD and VA outline tweaks to their iEHR strategy that intend to advance exchange and interoperability by early next year.
EHR implementation, meaningful use and compliance are the top three healthcare CIO priorities for 2013, according to a study released Feb. 4 by Level 3.
ICD-10 experts say the one-year implementation delay doesn't allow organizations to relax their transition efforts. It is for this reason that a day-long ICD-10 Symposium will be offered on Sunday, March 2 at HIMSS13.
HHS Secretary praises Carolyn Clancy for having impacted millions of Americans' health.
After 10 years at the helm of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), high-profile leader Carolyn Clancy, MD, will step down as director. The agency is known for its research focused on outcomes and quality of care.
Consumers aren't the only ones using mobile apps to improve their health. Their doctors are using them, too. A recent study conducted by Epocrates indicates physicians are accessing drug information at the point of care, often through a mobile medical app, to make sure the drugs they're prescribing aren't harming their patients. That, says the San Mateo, Calif.-based developer of online reference tools, amounts to more than 27 million potentially dangerous drug interactions avoided each year.
Janet Hofmeister discusses Florida HIE's strategy for financial sustainability, challenges, and keeping up with the rules and regulations.
A central part of American hospitals, the intensive care unit (ICU) could benefit greatly from evolving health information technologies, offering clinical decision support, quality analysis and a new foundation for a critical care system changing with an aging patient population. Yet ICU triaging -- prioritizing of the most severe conditions -- has been underutilized and under-encouraged by the federal government, a team of medical researchers argue in a New England Journal of Medicine commentary.