Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
St. John's Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., will rebuild and come back stronger, its executives pledged in a news conference held earlier this week. Part of the rebuild is putting the EHR – installed less than a month ago – back online.
As it addresses an "explosive growth of medical information," IBM has expanded its Health Analytics Solution Center – with team members working to increase and improve remote EHR connectivity through new "Watson"-like analytics power.
A new personal health record platform set to launch this summer aims to give parents anytime, anywhere access to a comprehensive view of their children's health records.
Keeping its "eye on the prize, but feet on the ground," the advisory panel to the HIT Policy Steering Committee recently took a step closer to pushing back Stage 2 of meaningful use. Such a delay, the committee said, would grant providers more time to incorporate other deadline-driven health IT projects – most notable, the massive ICD-10 conversion – into their agendas.
The 17 Beacon Communities, stretching from Maine to Hawaii, are celebrating their first anniversary. While much progress has been made, it is clear that this is "a journey of quality improvement that never ends," as one expert put it.
The start-up and management costs of an accountable care organization (ACO) is considerably higher than estimated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in its proposed rule, according to the American Hospital Association.
AMIA, the association for informatics professionals, is urging the Office of the National Coordinator to give particular attention to workforce development. The organization called attention to healthcare IT workforce needs as part of its response to ONC's call for comments on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.
There's wonderful information technology in the World of Health IT exhibit hall, said Microsoft's Bill Crounse here in Budapest, but it's what you do with the information that counts.
Large populations, geographic disparities and legacy infrastructure problems can derail national health IT projects. Estonia suffers from none of these factors.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is urging CMS to rethink the government's rulemaking proposals on accountable care organizations.