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Hardly a day passes without a conversation about innovation.
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At the center of so many critical issues in healthcare today lies the electronic health record. It's driving the meaningful-use regulations, ICD-10 implementation, updates to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the most basic of all questions—how to reduce the cost of...
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Every now and then, I find it useful to sit back, relax a bit and ponder what awaits us as health information technology leaders. If you believe the "relax" part or the "now and then" part, you completely missed my cynicism and semi-sarcasm. I find myself thinking about this all too often.
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Using off-the-shelf content standards and messaging protocols, the Veterans Affairs Department and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of HHS have successfully demonstrated how to electronically tag mental health and other highly sensitive clinical records to help...
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In two years, hundreds of thousands of American physicians and thousands of hospitals that fail to buy and install costly healthcare information technologies—such as digital records for prescriptions and patient histories—will face penalties through reduced Medicare and Medicaid...
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I was a pretty good student in high school and generally brought home a fine report card. When I showed my report card to my grandfather, he would ask, "Well, what did you learn?"
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"Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it."—UnknownI remember the first time I heard someone use Thomas Paine’s quote "Lead, follow or get out of the way."
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Information technology is now indispensable to the success of your organization. Market leaders are those who best take data and turn it into actionable and strategic information. How well data is harvested and information managed will define winners and losers.
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"It is truly the first civil rights act of the 21st century." The words of Sen. Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, struck an optimistic note in 2008. After 12 years of struggle, congressional action to protect Americans from genetic discrimination was providing a rare respite in a period of...
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Every hospital information technology manager I meet faces the same recruitment issues I do.
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