A sense of mission and urgency were the twin themes of the American Health Information Management Association's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City last week.
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Two years ago this month, Modern Healthcare first reported on the status of cloud computing in the healthcare information technology industry, noting there was little awareness of its potential and limited uptake of cloud services in the healthcare IT industry at that time.
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Two organizations and six individuals are winners of the 2011 awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems.
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Bill Beighe is the only nonphysician among the six individual AMDIS award winners this year. Beighe is chief information officer of the 300-provider, 100-location Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz (Calif.) and CIO of the 600-plus-member Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange.
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Dr. Larry Holder is the chief medical information officer at Decatur (Ill.) Memorial Hospital and physician champion of an award-winning health IT program.
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Cleveland came away with two AMDIS award winners this year—the MetroHealth System and its chief medical informatics officer, Dr. David Kaelber.
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Dr. Peter Park is a commander in the U.S. Navy and deputy director for clinical informatics with the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
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Dr. Brian Patty, an emergency medicine specialist, has served as chief medical informatics officer at the three-hospital HealthEast Care System in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
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Clinical staff at Seattle Children's Hospital were simply wasting time, or better put, having their time wasted, with the hospital's computer system, according to Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Wes Wright.
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Dr. Carol Steltenkamp is “one of those” physician technology leaders, excelling at many tasks.
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A proposed federal privacy rule affording patients access to information about who has accessed or received copies of their medical records may be more trouble than its worth in terms of patient benefits, some industry leaders say.
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No one goes on a cruise with the intention of falling ill, but bad things happen even to fun-seeking people. Since the average age of a cruise ship passenger is 46, and an estimated 14.3 million people sauntered up the gang planks of 220 North American cruise ships last year, sick passengers are a mathematical certainty.
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Steadily increasing antibiotic use, the lack of new antimicrobials coming down the pipeline and the growth of multidrug-resistant organisms have together forced some real creativity among those who head up hospitals' efforts to control drug costs and combat overuse.
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On Oct. 1, 2013, nearly the entire U.S. healthcare industry is scheduled to start using the ICD-10 family of diagnostic and procedure codes in response to a federal mandate. It's a date that, without close examination, still seems comfortingly distant. But distances in healthcare, as they can be in the desert, are often illusory.
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An important goal of hospital website design is a simple one: Help people find what they're looking for quickly. And thanks to the ability to record every click and every search, arguments over what people are looking for can be settled fairly easily.
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