Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
At this critical juncture in the evolution of the healthcare delivery system when change is the only constant, hospitals can no longer accept the seemingly intractable inefficiencies and quality and safety problems that have taken root at many facilities. The good news for hospitals grappling with continuous, tumultuous upheavals including seemingly interminable EHR and CPOE implementations, some long-standing problems can be fixed fairly easily and quickly.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the substance of the Affordable Care Act, it's time to refocus attention toward the essentially bipartisan support for health IT. At the same time, it's worth reconsidering some closely-held beliefs about technology's role in care delivery.
The Supreme Court ruling -- finally -- has been handed down and the verdict is out: Chief Justice Roberts' hand pulled the ACA to shore. For the most part, industry insiders view the outcome as positive -- though many officials emphasize it's just the first step on a long road to reform.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone.
Payer performance improvement remained flat in 2011, according to the seventh annual PayerView rankings released today by health IT company athenahealth. That's attributed in part to new compliance measures and major information technology shifts.
The White House held a two-hour town hall meeting on Tuesday to get the pulse of how health IT is advancing nationwide, according to one panelist at the private session.
In real estate, it’s all about location, location, location, they say. In healthcare IT, you might say it’s about integration, integration, integration. Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman is keenly aware of how critical product integration is, he says, and he’s working on it. It’s the difficulties with integration that seem to have led to the EHR company’s recent troubles – at least it’s what Allscripts customers and analysts mention most often.
Medical Informatics Engineering finds rewarding niche in occupational health, outfitting the employee clinics of some of the world's largest companies
It’s not business as usual, but more like rebooting at Allscripts headquarters now that the waves are beginning to settle after what some market analysts described as a “dismal” quarter for the electronic health record company.
Over the past two decades, America has experienced a societal revolution led by the Internet and the availability of "big data," – defined by the Wall Street Journal as “the ability to collect, process and interpret massive amounts of information.”