Healthcare IT News
Many Americans believe that U.S. policymakers’ failure to invest more in medical innovation will have a "significant long-term impact" on quality of life, employment and economic growth, according to a new poll. Medical research and innovation is typically linked to the use of information technology.
Charles Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind., 2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award, Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS, Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors
Mobile health applications will be distributed predominantly through traditional healthcare channels by 2015 as opposed to app stores, according to a global survey by research2guidance.
Norton Healthcare will use the Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System and Microsoft HealthVault to aggregate and mine data for its Accountable Care Organization initiative.
Communication problems and lack of knowledge are the most frequent causes of medication errors and adverse drug events in primary care practice offices, according to a study of a prototype Web-based medication error and adverse drug event reporting system.
More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opened Jan. 3, Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must use certified EHR technology to be eligible. The government has identified five Authorized Certification and Testing Bodies, or ACTBs.
MedTech Media, the publisher of Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News and a suite of related online products, will begin publishing the bimonthly magazine Government Health IT in 2011.
Behavior Imaging Solutions - a technology firm focused on more effectively assessing, treating and training professionals working with autism, brain disorders and PTSD - announced Thursday the results of its recent telehealth-based operational assessment, conducted on behalf of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service.