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Eighty percent of respondents to a March 2011 Healthcare IT News survey of hospital and health system IT professionals showed that achieving meaningful use was top of mind – above privacy and security concerns.
Hospitals are taking steps to avoid overdocumentation, according to clinical informatics experts.
Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
More than 80,000 healthcare providers have signed up to receive incentives tied to the meaningful use of electronic health records.
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has now recognized clinical informatics (CI) as a subspecialty, with exams beginning in 2012 and certification to begin in early 2013.
Maine is a deceptively complex state, with remote sections defined by grid coordinates rather than town names, island communities accessible only by boat and winter storms that make driving nearly impossible. What better place, then, to test a new telehealth service?
Three organizations are receiving grants of up to $1 million apiece to help expand the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers.
With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.
Bill Bernstein, chairman of the healthcare division at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, explains how CMS has laid the foundation for real reform of the care delivery system.
Google and Yahoo were cited by 46 percent of physicians in a recent survey as a frequent source of information used to diagnose, treat and care for patients.