Chief information officers aren't running their healthcare organizations, but maybe they should, says Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.
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Who's still stumping for a national patient identifier? “I want an identifier,” said Joey Sudomir, CIO at Texas Health Partners, Arlington, and Bill Spooner is right there with him.
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Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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Russell Branzell, the new president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, told the 750 chief information officers gathered in Scottsdale, Ariz., for CHIME's annual fall forum that the health IT industry will face numerous challenges over the next year. The former...
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives laid out an ambitious lobbying agenda to the 750 members gathered Oct. 8-11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the group's annual 2013 fall forum. Pamela McNutt, a member of CHIME's policy steering committee and CIO of Methodist Health Systems in...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari didn't quite bare his soul to a bunch of hospital CIOs, but the man who was indefatigably buoyant as the nation's federal health information technology czar did pull back the curtain a bit and offered an assessment of his own concerns as well as some "insider clues" in his...
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The start date for the modernization of the coding system that healthcare systems and physician offices use for everything from billing to population health management is now less than a year away. To get ready for ICD-10, thousands of coders and physicians must be retrained. Modern Healthcare...
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The choice for the next chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives represents a major new programming thrust for CHIME -- how to help small and mid-sized hospitals ramp up their efforts in deploying the latest information technologies to achieve the next phase in...
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Some healthcare CIOs hope to create a platform for dialogue and to create consensus around two sensitive privacy issues—patient record identification and consent management.
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Hospital officials looking to improve drug compliance or help patients with pain management might consider including video games in their armamentarium.
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Being a top information officer at a hospital or physician practice these days requires juggling skills. Should a system's scarce capital for information technology be funneled into achieving the next stage of interoperability to maintain government incentive payments or would it be better deployed...
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Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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While Congress focuses on the budget impasse, there's also acknowledgement that healthcare IT will play a key role in improving our healthcare system, according to CHIME's president and CEO.
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As expected, outgoing CHIME board Chairman George Hickman made an appearance at CHIME's opening keynote session. Unexpectedly, he came out singing.
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The bad news is, if your healthcare organization hasn't yet had a privacy and security breach hit the media, it probably will, consultant Steven Bennett says.
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' 2013 Fall CIO Forum kicks off Oct. 8 and runs through Oct. 11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Modern Healthcare Editor Merrill Goozner and health IT reporter Joseph Conn will be covering it with stories and video interviews at Live@CHIME. For...
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