Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
"Investing in heath information technology is a top priority for health plans," says Robert Zirkelbach, press secretary of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) whose Institute 2010 conference takes place Wednesday, June 9 to Friday, June 11 in Las Vegas.
New York State's two federally designated healthcare IT regional extension centers (RECs) kicked off their work in the Big Apple May 13. And then they hit the road to connect with physicians in Long Island, Syracuse, Buffalo, Binghamton, Albany and Tarrytown. The mission to help the docs convert their paper records to digital ones.
The Department of Health and Human Services will conduct two surveys to find out more about patient perceptions and preferences for the use of healthcare information technology.
HHS announced the two studies in the Federal Register on May 14.
Beacon Communities offer hope, practical approaches to IT
Catholic Health East headquartered in Newtown Square, Pa. will deploy evidence-based clinical decision support order sets at its 18 hospitals.
Chief information officers at some of the most wired hospitals in the country say they will be hard-pressed to qualify for federal healthcare IT incentives by next year.
People love using analogies when talking about areas that are new, abstract or controversial. Not surprisingly, the nation’s health information technology infrastructure, having all three characteristics, is prime fodder for this game. If done well, analogies offer insight and specificity and if not they can be confusing and even comical.
Kevin Hutchinson serves on the federal Health Information Technology Standards Panel, advising President Barack Obama's national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, on the development and use of health information interoperability standards.
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a nonprofit standards group, is recommending changes in the government's draft rules on health IT certification that EHNAC officials say would make the rules stronger.
Health Affairs recently published a study showing that the Veterans Administration’s (VA’s) investment in electronic health records and other health information technology yielded a whopping $3.09 billion in cumulative benefits and improved preventive care.