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A recent story by Patty Enrado (http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/community-colleges-should-be-tapped...) discussed the role that community colleges might play in meeting these workforce needs. The story relied mainly on the opinion of one senior vice president of a medical insurance company and a director of a community college association. Had this story interviewed a wider array of individuals who work in health IT, different conclusions may have been reached.
The "meaningful use" issue has been attracting a lot of attention in healthcare reform efforts lately. In very broad strokes, the debate stems from a provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that allocates funding for physicians who are deemed to be meaningful users of electronic health records by 2011.
It was when Wendy Wolf, MD, talked about the fisherman brought into the emergency room after suffering a stroke on Casco Bay, or the skier unconscious after an accident on the slopes of Sugarloaf, or the woman in the doctor’s office who can’t remember when she last had a mammogram, that brought home just how essential the exchange of information among hospitals and physicians can be.
The National Cyber Security Alliance has added Google to its board of directors. The announcement comes as Google’s health division has increased activity this summer to protect patient rights.
A five-year ongoing study involving 10 large physician practices across the country has so far shown improved quality of care for chronic disease patients from the use of health information technology.
Frost & Sullivan estimates the Health Information Technology market by revenue in 2008, in APAC (Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Australia) was close to USD5.04 billion with an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.8 percent from 2005-2008.
Beauregard Memorial Hospital, a 60-bed, acute care and community hospital, has selected open-source technology to automate its medical records.
The Obama adminstration's chief for healthcare IT technology David Blumenthal, MD, was on the healthcare IT message from dawn to dusk Thursday - a part of the White House campaign to save its troubled healthcare reform plans.
David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology, and John Glaser, adviser to the Office of the National Coordinator, have joined a new presidential advisory council on science and technology.
An EHR program that cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent has also kept patients healthy two years later, according to a new study.