Jack Beaudoin
In a sobering keynote address at the 2010 World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition, eHealth researcher Enrico Coiera of University of New South Wales, Australia said industry enthusiasts who back, uncritically, national-scale HIT systems need to prepare themselves for some very bad news.
Healthcare IT leaders from the United States and Europe say they're confident they stand on the brink of a new era of eHealth cooperation. But if the areas they identified at a panel on EU-US cooperation represents the "low-hanging fruit," no one should expect immediate results.
Facing a sometimes impatient and skeptical audience of clinicians and healthcare IT vendors, European Commission officials say the latest eHealth plans will include concrete proposals to deploy information technology throughout European health systems.
European Union ministers have unveiled a common vision and policy priorities to ensure that all countries in the region take advantage of information technology to improve healthcare.
There are two ways of looking at upcoming compliance deadlines for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10.
Electronic health record vendor Epic has just released Haiku, an iPhone application that provides authorized users with secure access to schedules, patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes.
Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions attributes big jumps in its second quarter 2009 revenue and profit to the "stimulus" effect, and CEO Glen Tullman is predicting even better news in the year ahead.
When officials at Grant Medical Center, part of the OhioHealth system, looked to improve the hospital’s quality indicators, they knew information technology could help. But unlike many healthcare organizations, they aimed the IT initiative at patients, not clinicians.
If providers delay their acquisition of an EHR until the federal government issues a definition of “meaningful use,” they’re wasting valuable time.
Industry leaders say providers should not delay EMR decisions because of uncertainty around the definition of "meaningful use."