March 04, 2010
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Free Access H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, talks with Modern Healthcare and Health IT Strategist reporter Joseph Conn about the highlights of the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta, as well as what to expect at the 2011 meeting in Orlando.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Free Access Josh Lemieux, director of personal health technology for the Markle Foundation, talks with Modern Healthcare editor David Burda about the foundation's recent information technology survey during the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 04, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Readers expressed some concern, but not in overwhelming numbers, about several key changes in healthcare information privacy laws included in the stimulus law. FULL STORY »
By David Burda |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger urged the healthcare industry to improve patient safety by learning from the U.S. commercial airline industry. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration While healthcare IT is not Aneesh Chopra's exclusive domain, using IT to improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs is very much on the agenda of the nation's first chief technology officer. FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Free Access Andrew Wiesenthal, associate executive director of the Permanente Foundation, talks with Modern Healthcare and Health IT Strategist reporter Joseph Conn about Kaiser Permanente's electronic health-record system completion during the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's conference in Atlanta.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Free Access David Osborn, general manager of the Nashville Medical Trade Center, talks with Modern Healthcare editor David Burda about the trade center's progress during the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Free Access Modern Healthcare and Health IT Strategist reporter Joseph Conn discusses the activities of the fourth and final day of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2010 conference in Atlanta.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
By David Burda |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The increasing use of IT in healthcare will increase the ability of federal law enforcement to uncover potential Medicare fraud but may make it harder to prove, according to an investigator. FULL STORY »
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Modern Healthcare's second annual IT Case Study Contest is now open. Submissions are being accepted through April 30. FULL STORY »
By David Burda |
March 04, 2010
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Basic Web Registration One of the federal healthcare policymakers involved in the $1.1 billion comparative-effectiveness research initiative apparently doesn't want to take his own medicine. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration David Blumenthal's keynote speech was in part a personal introduction, and then in turn pep talk, recitation of recent federal achievements and preview of the work ahead. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Kent Gale, chairman of the Orem, Utah-based KLAS market-research firm, reported something most already knew: Adoption of computerized physician order entry remains low. FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Hyland Software, Cleveland, a maker of enterprise content management software, has acquired eWebHealth, a Reading, Mass., company that hosts medical-record workflow solutions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is part of a broader effort by Hyland to move into the healthcare field. In July last year, Hyland bought Valco Data Systems, which provides document management and imaging, workflow and health information management services for hospitals, regional health information organizations and integrated delivery networks. FULL STORY »
By David Burda |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Healthcare CIOs expressed a surprising amount of skepticism over whether the three leading federal IT initiatives will help their organizations' efforts, according to a CHIME survey. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The ONC will exercise the authority it was given by Congress and expedite the authorization of organizations for the certification of EHR systems under the federal stimulus law. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 03, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Few healthcare information systems are plug-and-play. It takes time for IT leaders to plan for, budget, select, buy and install these systems, and for front-line staffers to adapt their workflows. FULL STORY »
March 03, 2010
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Free Access Steve Waldren, director of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Center for Health Information Technology, talks with Modern Healthcare editor David Burda about AAFP members' IT challenges during the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 03, 2010
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Free Access Modern Healthcare editor David Burda discusses the activities of the third day of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2010 conference in Atlanta, as well as what is to come during the remaining day of the conference.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 03, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Atrophying HR departments, a large unemployed population and a projected “talent shortage” are combining to create a “perfect storm,” says a Monster Worldwide director. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn and Andis Robeznieks |
March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration A proposed rule creating a temporary certification program for testing and certifying health IT systems in order for providers to meet deadlines to receive stimulus law funding has been announced. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Harvard Medical School Chief Information Officer John Halamka led a wide-ranging discussion outlining past government health IT initiatives and describing the current federal landscape. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration After five years of collaborative development between Intermountain Healthcare and GE Healthcare, the pair publicly demonstrated the first fruits of their labors at a news briefing. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 02, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription Over the next three years, more healthcare organizations are likely to go up a bracket in spending on health IT than those planning to cut IT spending enough to drop a bracket. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Attendees at CMS “town hall meeting” had more questions about the Obama administration's health IT subsidy program than the speakers had answers. FULL STORY »
March 02, 2010
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Free Access Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks discusses the activities of the second day of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2010 conference in Atlanta, as well as what is to come during the remaining days of the conference.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 02, 2010
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Free Access Eric Saff, chief information officer and senior vice president of John Muir Health, Walnut Creek, Calif., talks with Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks about health information exchange within the state and how information technology can improve efficiency and patient care during the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta. FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch
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March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The use of electronic prescribing in the U.S. nearly tripled in 2009, according to an annual report released by Surescripts. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 02, 2010
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Basic Web Registration IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., has closed on its acquisition of Initiate Systems, Chicago, IBM has announced. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Preparations for meeting “meaningful use” standards will drive future spending in health information technology, according to respondents to a survey released today by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The survey also found that nearly one fourth of all respondents to the survey indicated their organizations experienced a data security breach in the past year. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Noting that the healthcare reform debate in Washington “has a way of veering off track,” Jim Douglas, the Republican governor of Vermont, told attendees of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual conference in Atlanta that states are being forced to confront problems and take action out of necessity. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Modern Healthcare's second annual IT Case Study Contest is now open. Submissions are being accepted through April 30. This annual program recognizes healthcare information technology implementation projects that have improved patient care and that also may be eligible for funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, commonly known as the stimulus law. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The concept of “meaningful use” dominated Sunday's preconference physician information technology symposium at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention in Atlanta, just as it will at many of the trade show's scheduled activities throughout the week. FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Speakers Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp., and HIMSS Chairman Barry Chaiken noted how health IT has the potential to improve healthcare and, in the process, lower its cost by doing a better job of managing the care of patients' chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension thereby making costly procedures unnecessary. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Not-for-profit HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Chicago, and the Advisory Board Co., Washington, announced a “collaboration” between the organizations that will result in HIMSS Analytics' two most-senior executives joining the for-profit Advisory Board.The Advisory Board, Washington, is a publicly traded, for-profit corporation that provides performance improvement services to healthcare and educational organizations. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Free Access Modern Healthcare and Health IT Strategist reporter Joseph Conn shares with readers his thoughts on what to watch for at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2010 conference.View all Live@HIMSS coverage and take our daily reader poll. FULL STORY »
March 01, 2010
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Free Access William Bria, M.D., president of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, and chief medical information officer of Shriners Hospitals for Children, Tampa, Fla., talks with Modern Healthcare and Health IT Strategist reporter Joseph Conn about the topics being addressed at the Physicians' IT Symposium held concurrently with the 2010 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference in Atlanta. FULL STORY »
By H. Stephen Lieber |
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription It has been a year of anticipation and activity for healthcare information technology and management systems. At this time in 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus law, had just been approved two weeks earlier, and the year ended with the introduction on Dec. 30 of the draft regulations for electronic health-record standards and meaningful use. FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch and Joe Carlson |
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The pressure is on to plug in. The federal government put billions of dollars on the table for physicians and hospital officials to digitize all patient records in their offices in the next four years. Those who start late get less money. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer |
March 01, 2010
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Basic Web Registration GE Healthcare announced at the Healthcare Information and Management System Society exposition in Atlanta that it has a name for its long-awaited software product born of its five-year collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, and a two-year development relationship with the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn |
March 01, 2010
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Print Magazine Subscription The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is known colloquially as the stimulus law. And when it comes to stimulating the attention of the healthcare industry, so far the law has lived up to its name. FULL STORY »
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