Healthcare leaders should foster a culture of privacy and security protection within their organizations or risk facing adverse consequences, according to Joy Pritts.
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When we survive major failure, we come out changed and our true character is fused into what we're going to be, said Adam Savage, the final keynote speaker at the CHIME 2012 Fall CIO Forum.
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Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn discusses final sessions of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives 2012 Fall CIO Forum, which included a grilling of HHS regulators and a talk on privacy from Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the Office of the National Coordinator for...
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The afflicted had their opportunity to confront their afflicters during a Q&A session with two top federal rulemakers for the EHR incentive-payment programs.
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Drexel DeFord, chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Technology Executives and chief information officer at Steward Health Care system, Boston, talks with Joseph Conn, Modern Healthcare reporter, about where both CHIME and the industry are headed at CHIME's 2012 Fall CIO Forum. DeFord...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses his views on where the country is going in the adoption of health IT in an interview with reporter Joseph Conn. They talked shortly after Mostashari led a plenary session at the...
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Joseph Conn, reporter for Modern Healthcare, reviews the highlights of the second day of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives 2012 Fall CIO Forum, in Indian Wells, Calif. Among them was a talk by Dr. Eric Topol, futurist and director of the Scripps Translational Science...
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Health information exchange, patient participation and population management are the three pillars of meaningful use of health IT going forward, Dr. Farzad Mostashari said in a speech and pep talk.
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The next big thing for CIOs will be business intelligence and, oh yes, information governance, a health IT researcher told a standing-room-only audience at the CHIME 2012 Fall CIO Forum.
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Joseph Conn, reporter for Modern Healthcare, recaps the first day of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives 2012 Fall CIO Forum in Indian Wells, Calif., and discusses plans for the second day. Speakers on the first day included keynoter and journalist Ted Koppel, and Drexel...
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Ten years ago, arguably the most famous fizzle in healthcare IT history happened when Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles scrapped it's “big bang” implementation of a CPOE system.
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The CHIME 2012 Fall CIO Forum kicked off with an early morning session updating attendees on the status of national and regional health information exchange efforts.
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