Bernie Monegain
For Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based health system with 55 acute care hospitals across the country and no electronic health record system, the challenge of achieving meaningful use will be "keeping the wheels on the wagon, so to speak," says Evon Holladay, vice president, business intelligence.
First up today at the first day of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation's summer summit: talk about meaningful use.
El Camino Hospital, a 542-bed acute care center, is using new technology to shave precious minutes off the time it takes for heart attack victims to receive lifesaving treatment.
Physician adoption of smartphones is experiencing exponential growth, according to "Point of Care Communications for Physicians," a new study from Spyglass Consulting Group.
A total joint replacement registry based on carefully designed and integrated technology can enhance patient safety, quality of care, cost-effectiveness and research, according to a paper published online in "Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research," a journal of the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) will collaborate with the World Health Organization (WHO) to harmonize WHO classifications and SNOMED CT to benefit health around the world.
An alliance that claims more than 2,300 community-based hospitals as members is pressing Congress for a legislative fix to the final rule on meaningful use to ensure that every hospital receives its fair share of incentive payments under the HITECH Act.
Borough of Manhattan Community College of The City University of New York (BMCC) and The State University of New York (SUNY) Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) have been awarded a $3 million U.S. Department of Labor, Community-Based Job Training Grant to help prepare a labor force for new healthcare IT jobs and other high-growth healthcare occupations.
A physician from a small general medical practice in Saugerties, N.Y., is set to testify about his use of healthcare IT before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health Tuesday.
Rural hospitals across the country will benefit from a new $400 million-per-year program, developed by the Federal Communications Commission, to provide affordable broadband in medically underserved communities.