Live@ News is Modern Healthcare's daily email alert on the news and events taking place at the healthcare conferences important to you. The most recent Live@ coverage is below.
Florida hospital Celebration Health near Orlando is among a handful of hospitals experimenting with wireless transmitters and sensors that track staff movements to improve efficiency and safety. FULL STORY »
Surgeon, scientist and serial healthcare entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, 45th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans with an estimated $9 billion fortune made in pharmaceuticals, talks about his NantHealth information technology network and why it will succeed at creating a global, interoperable health information network where so many others have failed. FULL STORY »
CMS chief Marilyn Tavenner, speaking at this week's HIMSS conference, reiterated that Oct.1 is the deadline for ICD-10 implementation, dashing hopes for an extension. What's your organization's status regarding meeting that deadline? Take Modern Healthcare's online survey on this controversial deadline. Watch for the results on our site next week. FULL STORY »
Digital tools such as iPads, mobile applications, online portals and text messaging are gaining popularity in hospitals, as many seek to better engage patients, improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. Although these technologies are steadily making their way into clinical practice, industry leaders say there is still a long road ahead to fully integrate digital technology with... FULL STORY »
Optum Labs CEO Dr. Paul Bleicher explains the research underway using clinical and claims data pooled in the collaborative formed with the Mayo Clinic and now including seven other partners. FULL STORY »
As consumers and the CMS push providers and IT vendors to ensure health data moves freely from system to system and place to place, alliances are forming to tackle the challenge. FULL STORY »
Providers, payers and claims clearinghouses can look for no relief from the Oct. 1 compliance deadline for the nationwide conversion to the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedural codes, the head of the CMS said Thursday. FULL STORY »
Imagine a programming ecosystem in which hordes of developers are creating healthcare software applications that enhance existing EHR systems. That's the vision behind Health Level Seven's FHIR project. FULL STORY »
Florida hospital Celebration Health is boosting patient-satisfaction scores and improving employee efficiency and productivity through the use of radio frequency identification devices. FULL STORY »
As healthcare providers look to technology to help them engage patients to improve clinical outcomes and lower costs, an emerging crop of companies has products to sell them. FULL STORY »
Three former heads of the ONC plus its current leader appeared on one panel at HIMSS, sharing their thoughts on health IT's history and future, and the role government should play in it. FULL STORY »
Behavioral health has long been an island unto itself when it comes to the electronic sharing of patient medical records. But Cerner Corp. has built a bridge between that island and the mainland of healthcare providers. FULL STORY »
David Muntz, until last October the principal chief deputy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, says he thinks federal regulators should hit the pause button on Stage 2 of EHR meaningful use. His remarks came in a conversation Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention. FULL STORY »
C. Martin Harris, M.D., is the Chief Information Officer and Chairman of the Information Technology Division at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio, and a staff member in the Department of General Internal Medicine. FULL STORY »
As Healthcare continues to evolve around the world, providers face an increasingly dynamic and complex set of challenges. Healthcare costs, quality and access issues are rapidly reaching crisis proportions that are no longer sustainable. High-performing healthcare organizations have the ability of making better – informed decisions which drive improved clinical care, operational efficiency... FULL STORY »
The ONC has recommended that EHR makers update their systems to capture and display identification data about implantable medical devices. The recommendation suggests that EHRs record and display these unique device identifiers. FULL STORY »
Announcements of time extensions for two key federal health information technology programs likely will not be announced when CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner gives her keynote speech Thursday, a HIMSS official said. FULL STORY »
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, head of the ONC, discusses how the agency may respond to pressure from providers for more flexibility in the Stage 2 meaningful-use deadlines. DeSalvo, who assumed the role in January, also lays out her vision for the office. FULL STORY »
Hospitals implementing electronic health records can improve patient safety with effective workflow, according to a presentation at the 2014 HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla. FULL STORY »
The Cleveland Clinic and Dell are teaming up to offer an EHR consulting, installation, configuration and hosting service based on the clinic's version of an EHR developed by Epic Systems Corp. FULL STORY »
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