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The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) says it's time for the ONC to address the governance of standard vocabularies and terminology for the meaningful use program.
Robert Graham, MD, a family medicine physician from Cincinnati, will lead the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program, the cornerstone of a $300 million initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to improve the quality and equality of healthcare nationwide.
Americans who have health issues are now using the Internet to expand their support networks to include online peers, especially if they have a rare disease, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.
Use of computerized physician order entry systems (CPOE) is one key factor to providing superior clinical quality, CEOs at HealthGrades 50 Best Hospitals for 2011 reported.
Promoting a two-heads-are-better-than-one approach, Baylor Health System's David Muntz and consultant Stuart Gardner called for greater collaboration between IT departments and clinical engineering during a Tuesday afternoon session at HIMSS11.
Many regional extension centers are already discovering best practices to reach primary providers in their region and begin the job of digitizing their records to meet meaningful use guidelines.
The debut of HIMSS' mini-conference HIT X.0 drew hundreds of attendees to a keynote featuring Aneesh Chopra, U.S. technology czar, and John Glaser, CEO of the Health Services Business Unit at Siemens.
America's physicians are resisting the adoption of electronic health records in spite of substantial federal financial incentives to do so. But they won't be able to resist for long, said Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and a speaker at HIMSS11.
Surescripts, the American Hospital Association and the College of American Pathologists have been awarded a $4.9 million grant to launch a program to prepare hospitals to submit electronic data on reportable lab results to public health agencies - a Stage 1 requirement for meeting meaningful use incentives.
This Session Tweet recaps Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's keynote speech on Monday morning at HIMSS11.