Mike Miliard
Chief information officers were scrambling to wade through and make sense of more than 1,000 pages of Stage 2 meaningful use rules yesterday afternoon, with some poring over the details late into the night. Most seem pleased, so far, but say there's lots of work to do.
Michael Grunwald, author of The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, spoke to Healthcare IT News about the making of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and about why health information technology may be the most lasting and transformative pillar of the stimulus bill.
Mike Miliard, Managing Editor for Healthcare IT News, speaks to William Spooner of Sharp HealthCare about meaningful use Stage 2 and the challenging road ahead.
Timothy Bickmore, associate professor at Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science, has been working for the past decade in the area of "relational agents." He says these artificially intelligent avatars are poised for a promising future in healthcare.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and real-time location systems (RTLS) offer big savings and ROI for hospitals, and hold the promise for big improvements in patient safety. They also happen to be really cool.
An agreement between Center for Connected Health and health management firm CHS Health Services will enable medical specialists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital to offer telehealth services to Fortune 500 companies nationwide.
A new case study from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) shows how Fort Worth, Texas-based Cook Children's Medical Center has seen benefits from an electronic barcoding system that verifies medication delivery.
Two years ago this summer, the meaningful use Stage 1 final rule was revealed to an eager public. Immediately, hospitals and physician practices got down to business. Since then, core measures have been tackled and menus sets have been ticked off lists. Some criteria were relatively doable, some have remained maddeningly problematic, but more than $2.5 billion in checks have been mailed out so far.
Health IT professionals say disaster recovery and business continuity are their most pressing needs when it comes to dealing with huge and ever-growing volumes of health data, according to a recent survey from BridgeHead Software. Storage is a sticking point too, they said, but also noted that the cloud is "still not ready for prime time."
A pilot program at University of Missouri shows promise with the use of sensor technology to help aging adults remain in their homes longer while being monitored by care providers.