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The vision back in 2004 was that in 10 years the healthcare industry would have complete interoperability from one provider to the next, from providers to patients to payers and back again. Now those 10 years are almost up. So how close is the industry to the original goal?
The CHIME/HIMSS John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year, James Turnbull, who oversees all things IT at University of Utah Health Care, is informed by experience he gained at several other healthcare systems before coming to Utah five years ago. His stints, including one in Canada, exposed him to a number of ways healthcare systems - and health IT teams - can be effective.
Moore's law is elegant in its simplicity - and world-changing in its significance. And, as hard as it might have been to believe when Intel co-founder Gordon Moore posited it back in 1965, it has more or less held true for the half-century since.
Chief information officers, chief privacy officers, chief compliance officers and all those assorted other assorted C-level titles charged with locking down health information security have a lot on their plates nowadays. Now they’ve got something else to think about.
When asked what a powerful health information exchange (HIE) is built upon, one might immediately think of computer accounts, files upon files of paper medical reports converted into megabytes, laptop, screens and data synapses sparking the air between them.
The closing keynote on Thursday is a twofer. James Carville and Karl Rove, on opposing sides of the political spectrum, will take the stage together at HIMSS13 to debate politics, economics, healthcare reform -- well, just about everything.
Everyone likes a good competition, particularly with a potential $9 million gold carrot available to the victors. On Jan. 9, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced a challenge for software developers to create a new medical scheduling system for VA's nationwide health system.
A new research partnership between Mayo Clinic and Optum - the health IT arm of UnitedHealth - will bring together more than 105 million clinical and claims records for the purpose of improving quality metrics in healthcare.
Whether the compliance deadline delay announced last February by the Department of Health and Human Services stalled progress on ICD-10, or provided an opportunity to hone implementation timelines, all depends on where a particular healthcare organization was prior to that announcement.
This past January, Forrester Research analyst Mike Gaultieri did some soothsaying. "My prediction: TIME magazine will name big data its 2013 person of the year," he wrote.