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At HIMSS15, Mitre will be making presentations on a range of topics including analytics, preventing fraud, improving patient safety and increasing the accuracy of medication ordering.
A staggering 400,000 people are estimated to die each year due to medical errors. A big part of the blame, say nurses in a new survey, lies with poor interoperability between medical devices and IT.
A relative newcomer to the C-suite, the chief medical information officer title continues to redefine itself. One frustrated CMIO captured the anxiety of this new role when he referred to himself as the "chief apology officer."
The HIMSS15 Social Media Ambassador says we know where health technologies are headed by looking at other industries.
CIOs need staff; veterans need jobs. A win-win? At HIMSS15, Jaime Parent, associate CIO at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, will lay out the steps hospitals can take to harness the considerable talents of returning service members.
(SPONSORED) Rich Berner, president, International and Sunrise Business Unit, at Allscripts, discusses the challenges to care improvement and how interoperability can help to manage healthcare across patient populations.
(SPONSORED) Wayne Fellmeth, MD, the chief medical information officer at Hunterdon Healthcare Systems, discusses his organization's transition from fee-for-service to risk-based revenue and how their IT strategy supports this shift.
Docs nationwide are unhappy and exhausted in their current roles, and rather than helping, mHealth tools are only adding to the problem. At least that's the finding of a recent survey that took pulse of physician misery levels.
"These events will provide practical advice to investors, providers and entrepreneurs in the health tech space, including how-to guidance on establishing collaborations, structuring deals and identifying market opportunities."
Incorrect or missing data in electronic health records and other health IT systems is a huge patient safety hazard. Worse, according to ECRI, once inaccurate data gets into an EHR, "it's hard to get it out."