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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of “meaningful use” for healthcare information technology.
Children’s Medical Center in Dallas became the first hospital to Twitter in real-time from a transplant surgery.
Bob Sarnecki, CIO at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the nation, figures the second time rolling out CPOE will be a charm.
A great deal of debate has focused on how to achieve the Obama administration’s goal of a national, interoperable healthcare information network. While there are some detractors, the vast majority of those engaged in the debate see great value in this initiative, for Americans and for our healthcare system.
Editor Bernie Monegain interviews David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The United States spends more than any other nation on healthcare and has arguably one of the most computerized healthcare systems in the world, and yet it is one of the least efficient. Now that President Obama is pushing for the digitization of medical records, the challenge of overcoming the widespread variations in the way health care is delivered in our country is more apparent than ever before.
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The Health IT Standards Committee and its twin Health IT Policy Committee, headed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, began their work May 11.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told members of the House Ways and Means Committee last month that health reform is not contingent merely upon health IT adoption, but also on interoperability.