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The electronic health record system at Boston Children's Hospital crashed on Friday, March 20, and remained down until Wednesday March, 25, the Boston Globe reports.
CMIOs are eager to increase strategic involvement in their organization's critical initiatives, and they are gaining ground.
At no other time in history has there been such a concentrated push for interoperability as there is today. But that doesn't mean the road to connected care will be an easy one.
Virtualization enables clinicians to see the same desktop from any device within a hospital's network and lets applications essentially follow those users around.
Software giant aims to help clinicians adjust to changing landscape with analytics, cloud and mobile software tools.
"Because I said so." If you've ever been a parent of a teenager, you've likely uttered (screamed) those four words on more than one occasion. Our columnist recently recognized some similarities with the meaningful use program.
In five short years, the cloud has evolved from a curious, unproven concept to almost a way of life in healthcare. Advancements in technology and more widespread acceptance from providers have made it an integral part of the IT landscape.
How an HIE serving 2 million patients piloted a project to understand whether its data could help identify people in the area with undiagnosed hypertension.
Tools will soon be able to answer questions that doctors never might have never thought to ask, the association's president said.
On March 20, CMS released its proposed Stage 3 rules and certification critieria for eligible hospitals and providers. This analysis by Micky Tripathi and John Halamka, MD, goes through the good, the bad and the ugly of it all.