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By Molly Merrill | 10:54 am | October 10, 2011
The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple's new release "certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications." But one team of UC Davis researchers didn't need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
By Noam Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS | 02:43 pm | October 07, 2011
Examining the three approaches to ensuring the records public health agencies receive can be linked accurately to their Master Patient Index entries.
By Mike Miliard | 12:14 pm | October 06, 2011
It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:49 am | October 06, 2011
Lynne Thomas Gordon, the new CEO of the American Health Information Management Association, spent her first days on the job at the organization's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City this week. She spoke with Healthcare IT News about her expectations and the challenges ahead for the 63,000 member organization.
By Gerard Reeder | 11:00 am | October 05, 2011
A survivor recounts real-life practical lessons about building HIEs.
By Molly Merrill | 10:28 am | October 04, 2011
Two surgeons from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are touting the benefits of social media to their colleagues as a way to disseminate accurate information to their trainees and patients.
By John Loonsk | 03:33 pm | October 03, 2011
The title of this commentary is pure jargon, but does express the issue at hand. An alternative title "The Most Important Health Policy Decision Hidden as an Obscure Health IT Technical Evaluation that You May Never Have Heard of," would have also been accurate, but is grammatically unsound and too flippant for an important subject.
By Dr. John Loonsk | 02:59 pm | October 03, 2011
Or the most important health policy decision hidden as an obscure health IT technical evaluation that you may never have heard of.
By Tom Sullivan | 10:28 am | October 03, 2011
Answering questions from an airbase in Afghanistan, Gustavo Coutin explains the career's appeal, weighs in on what it takes and highlights some health IT-related opportunities.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:18 am | October 03, 2011
Shortly after the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recommended that the United States adopt ICD-10, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) assembled a session on the code scheme for its annual conference. The last-minute addition was so late, in fact, that the MGMA did not have time to include it on the printed agenda, and the only available time slot was 7 a.m.