Enterprise Resource Planning

Patient Centered Medical Home initiative follows patient home

As the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Beacon Communities focus on using IT to improve the quality and efficiency of care, they also have a rare opportunity to spur regional economic growth by making use of private-sector systems and technology.

The debut of HIMSS' mini-conference HIT X.0 drew hundreds of attendees to a keynote featuring Aneesh Chopra, U.S. technology czar, and John Glaser, CEO of the Health Services Business Unit at Siemens.

In the session "Emerging IT Leaders: Strategies for the Next Level of Healthcare IT Leadership," Kim Slocum, president of KDS Consulting, and Kenneth Kleinberg, senior research director of the Advisory Board Company, illuminated the organization-level aspects of advancing healthcare IT.

Indicators are that sales of ambulatory electronic health records are sizzling, driven mostly by the prospect of federal incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of the technology.

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of hospitals in Philadelphia, Tulsa, Okla., and suburban Chicago and Phoenix, has upgraded its technology infrastructure with servers designed to increase system performance, uptime and reliability.