Bernie Monegain
The promises made to President Obama by several healthcare industry groups to control healthcare costs were overstated by the president, some of the groups are saying. Many of the savings under discussion would employ information technology as a way to shave expenses.
Healthcare imaging vendors offering next-generation computed tomography (CT) scanners are hard-pressed to convince healthcare providers of the value, concludes a new report from Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS.
As William Bria, MD, sees it, the Web site www.meaningfuluse.org, launched Tuesday by AMDIS and Compuware, will encompass much more than a narrow discussion on the words "meaningful use."
Health system modernization could save the government nearly $600 billion in health spending over the next decade and $9 trillion over the next 25 years, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Leadership Council.
Information technology would push some healthcare reform proposals put forth Monday in what the White House called a "breakthrough" meeting between President Barack Obama and representatives of insurance companies, doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical firms.
Several prominent healthcare professional groups, including America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, are set to meet with President Barack Obama Monday to announce a plan to cut healthcare costs by $2 trillion over 10 years.
A new GE project dubbed "healthymagination" will put $3 billion over six years into research and development to launch at least 100 innovations aimed at providing better healthcare while cutting costs.
Continued adoption of healthcare information technology is critical to healthcare reform, a spokesman for the nation's top corporations told the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday.
Clinical research that used to take months now takes minutes at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, thanks to new software that accesses data in electronic medical records.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of "meaningful use" for healthcare information technology.