Mike Miliard
A study by Harvard Medical School-affiliated researchers, published in June in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that Massachusetts physicians who used electronic health records saw a reduction in malpractice claims.
Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Adam Darkins, MD, chief consultant of care coordination services at the Department of Veterans Affairs, about the ways VA is deploying technology to deliver care to service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
David Blumenthal, MD, who was the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011, has been appointed president of the Commonwealth Fund. He will succeed Karen Davis, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
The U.S. labor market may be soft, but health IT is booming, with many hospitals locked in pitched competition to hire skilled technology professionals. One recruiter has laid out a battle plan for finding – and keeping – good employees.
The Department of Labor estimates a 30 percent increase in healthcare hiring between now and 2014 – totaling as many as 4.7 million new jobs. It also predicts the need for some 50,000 workers in health IT to meet the demands of meaningful use, ICD-10 and more. But finding qualified workers isn't always easy.
Video content analysis, by which recorded media is scoured automatically to detect and track specific pieces of information – motion detection, say, or facial recognition – is still a very new technology. But it's already finding footholds everywhere from CCTV security cameras to big Hollywood studios.
When Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, thinks about health information exchange (HIE), he's also thinking about grammar and parts of speech.
Axial Exchange has acquired mRemedy, a mobile healthcare platform founded by Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis-based DoApp.
For the first time ever, the United States Olympic Committee will use electronic medical records rather than paper charts to manage care for more that 700 athletes at the summer games.
"Knowledge is key," the saying goes. But sometimes getting to that knowledge – as quickly as possible – can be a challenge for clinicians.