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A recent study by research firm KLAS, “Executive Reaction to the Stimulus Package,” addresses the shift in IT project timelines since the ratification of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and its provisions for healthcare IT.
With the nation’s gradual move toward electronic health records comes an increased risk of lost or stolen healthcare data. And while federal entities like the Health IT Standards Committee are moving to tighten security and privacy standards, healthcare providers need to know there are steps they can take to protect their digital medical records.
The new, IT-laden, $485 million, 300-bed El Camino Hospital, in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, has been in the planning for six years and under construction for three years.
A healthcare system in Tacoma, Wash., a women’s center in Virginia, a network of community health centers in the Bronx and a health center called Heart of Texas will all receive the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence.
In this Newsmaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain speaks with Linda Kloss, CEO of the American Health Information Management Association.
Addressing challenges, building relationships and jumping on desks. Throw in ringing a cowbell for celebrating successes and you have just described a Benefitfocus client visit. The business model of personally visiting clients is not a new concept, but it is one that is gradually being replaced by businesses around the globe with conference calls and virtual meetings.
Earlier this year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) authorized $1.1 billion for healthcare comparative effectiveness research (CER), which is expected to guide a growing number of treatment protocols moving forward.
Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey contributed a very compelling commentary on healthcare reform to the Aug. 12 Wall Street Journal.
t's flu season. Just yesterday (Sept. 22), I heard on the news Michael Kurtz, a pediatrician in Centennial, Colo., south of Denver, say that in the last 10 days his three-office practice, which has 35,000 patients, had diagnosed 30 to 50 cases of swine flu a day. These diagnoses were not lab confirmed, he said, but the pediatricians in Centennial were confident they were on the mark. They tested for two strains of flu – influenza A and influenza B. State officials told them that 98 percent of positive influenza A tests are the H1N1 flu.
Calling its role in the healthcare IT realm “mission accomplished,” officials at the National Health Alliance for Health Information Technology ended a seven-year run on Sept. 30.