Mike Miliard
Medgadget, an El Granada, Calif.-based blog that's maintained by a group of doctors and biomedical engineers from around the world, has announced the beta release of a new interactive online service for people with medical conditions.
Managing Editor Mike Miliard interviews the CEO of Extormity, a satirical, fictional EHR vendor promising to extract as many dollars from its clients as possible in a bid to deliver the opposite of meaningful use.
VHA Inc., a healthcare network that serves more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 28,000 non-acute care providers nationwide, has contracted with athenahealth to offer its physician practices access to the company's full suite of Web-based electronic health record, practice management, and patient communication services.
A new KLAS report, which examines the health information exchange purchase plans of nearly 100 healthcare organizations, has found that, despite a crowded market, very few companies so far have consistently earned the confidence of providers.
IBM and the University of Missouri (MU) announced an initiative on Friday that aims to develop a first-of-a-kind cloud computing environment for genomics research collaboration at a regional level.
ClaimTrust, a provider of revenue cycle tools and services for hospitals, announced the availability of its newest product, InSight Payment Variance Analyzer, a payment analysis tool that automatically compares remittances to payer contracts in order to catch any variances and ensure maximum contractual payment for hospitals.
A new survey shows that while the medical management industry continues to focus resources on health IT, consumers are hampered in accessing their information online due to the cost of developing Web portals and other business and security-related concerns.
A recent in-depth assessment of health information exchange (HIE) vendors from IDC Health Insights is predicting "significant growth over the next 12 months or so," according to Lynne Dunbrack, program director at IDC Health Insights.
When the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its report "Electronic Health Record Usability: Vendor Practices and Perspectives" this past spring, its first words of warning were that design and ease of use were major sticking points.
EMRs and CPOE are all well and good. But what about one of the lesser discussed areas of healthcare IT? What about on-demand movies and touch-screen computers and whizz-bang video games? When patients are laid up in hospital beds, don't they deserve to have a little fun while these new advancements in information technology are helping to keep them healthy?