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The use of mobile technology in healthcare is advancing at speeds that only a short time ago could not be imagined, experts say.
More than 200 million mHealth applications are in use today, and that number is expected to increase threefold by 2012, according to a new report from Pyramid Research.
With the ringing in of 2011, healthcare IT has a tall order to fill: Interoperability.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched a new Innovation Center to oversee and coordinate pilot projects focused on increasing quality and lowering the costs of healthcare.
Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opened Jan. 3, Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must use certified EHR technology to be eligible. The government has identified five Authorized Certification and Testing Bodies, or ACTBs.
A regional health information organization formed by four Texas hospitals could serve as a model for electronic health record adoption in rural areas across the country, say its participants.
Hospitals across the country are on track to meet 2011 meaningful use criteria set by the federal government, according to new data from HIMSS Analytics. Nearly a quarter of the participating hospitals reported they could achieve 10 or more of the 14 required meaningful use core requirements.
The Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network, a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, has begun work on an $18 million fiber optic medical network aimed at improving care throughout the Nebraska panhandle.
Mercy Memorial Hospital System, a 238-bed community hospital in metropolitan Detroit, will replace its legacy technology with an enterprise-wide health information technology system. The move is aimed at making it possible for the hospital, its 200 staff physicians and post-acute care providers to connect and collaborate for a team approach to care.
The number of CIOs who expect their hospitals to qualify early for stimulus funding connected to meaningful use of electronic health records has dropped by half, according to a survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives.