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Two 2010 recipients are healthcare organizations.
The idea of creating a new data center or expanding an existing one brings to mind futuristic images of computer experts working with dazzling high-tech equipment to feed their ever-increasing need for data processing capabilities.
Thinking about the role healthcare providers and the creators of HIT systems will play in transforming the contemporary medical practice model
Charles Christian, CIO of Good Samaritan Hospital, a 232-bed hospital in Vincennes, Ind., 2010 John E. Gall CIO of the Year Award, Fellow of both CHIME and HIMSS, Formerly served on the CHIME Board of Trustees and is a past chairman of the HIMSS Board of Directors
Every year, the HIMSS annual conference has provided a milestone on our journey toward a future of HIT-assisted healthcare. Every year we’ve seen progress. Yet past years have been marked by the stubborn gap between the potential we perceive for HIT-assisted care and a sluggish rate of adoption among providers.
This February, I'll be attending my eighth HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition. Back in 2004, the industry was fairly new to me, although I had written about both healthcare and information technology for other publications. But it was a thrilling time to begin a new career, not least because, as one headline in the HIMSS Show Daily put it, "Suddenly, EHR is the talk of D.C."
Many cite complications, costs and frustrations.
Canada Health Infoway is investing $380 million to fund electronic medical record systems in community-based practices and outpatient settings throughout Canada, Infoway President and CEO Richard Alvarez announced.
In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program found that sites targeted at diabetes patients varied in both the quality of information they provide and the safeguards they take for protecting patient privacy.
Physicians at Ohio State University Medical Center (OSU) are incorporating genetic risk information into their patients' electronic medical records, as part of a study by Coriell Institute for Medical Research.