Mike Miliard
Analytics technologies, especially tools that track population health, are the chief investment priority for organizations pursuing accountable care, according to a new report from IDC Health Insights.
After McKesson, Cerner, Allscripts, Greenway and athenahealth made news at HIMSS13 with the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance, Healthcare IT News spoke with McKesson CEO John Hammergren about the road ahead. Joining Hammergren in the discussion were David McCallie and Arien Malec.
Some docs are having trouble with meaningful use. Indeed, as William S. Underwood, senior associate at the American College of Physicians, noted in an education session Tuesday at HIMSS13, there's been a 15 percent increase in reports that practices are "very dissatisfied" with their EHRs since 2010.
Big news was made at HIMSS13 on March 4 when, in an unprecedented collaboration, some health IT heavy-hitters joined forces in an effort to push the needle on interoperability.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has tapped HP Enterprise Services and Intelligent InSites for a $543 million contract to deploy real-time locating system technology in VA medical centers nationwide.
Moore's law is elegant in its simplicity - and world-changing in its significance. And, as hard as it might have been to believe when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore posited it back in 1965, it has more or less held true for the half-century since.
Chief information officers, chief privacy officers, chief compliance officers and all those assorted other assorted C-level titles charged with locking down health information security have a lot on their plates nowadays. Now they’ve got something else to think about.
This past January, Forrester Research analyst Mike Gaultieri did some soothsaying. "My prediction: TIME magazine will name big data its 2013 person of the year," he wrote.
A recent study by Weill Cornell Medical College shows how electronic health records can do much better when it comes to gauging the quality of patient care.
In a Jan. 14 letter to National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, commenting on the Health IT Policy Committee's proposals for Stage 3 meaningful use, James Madara, MD, executive vice president and CEO of the American Medical Association, put forth some of the AMA's "concerns and recommendations" about the program.