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A hospital in Illinois known as “Good Sam” and a healthcare consulting group in Florida are among the seven 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners. And information technology is at the core of operations for both.
2011 is shaping up as an exciting moment for the people who work in healthcare information technology and who recognize IT’s promise – and its limitations.
“What do you really hold dear to you that you want to preserve into the future as you transition to an electronic medical record?”
Maine’s culture is to “get things done” – and when it comes to improving the quality of care through IT, the state has positioned itself well, said its director of the Office of the State Coordinator for HIT, James Leonard.
About half of all electronic medical record implementations fail, and most of those failures stem from poor planning and preparation, said a family physician who spoke at a regional extension center forum for providers in Maine.
The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 2010, the largest sum ever recovered in a single year, according to findings published in the government's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
As hospitals and health systems across the country grapple with achieving meaningful use of electronic medical records, Accenture is the latest to offer a survey on how they are doing. This one is a survey of CIOs from health systems with advanced use of EMRs, and one of the key findings is that most health systems underestimate the time and cost of implementation.
Mobility is a "vital" sign that should be regularly checked in adults over the age of sixty, and according to two health and exercise science professors at Wake Forest University, the iPad is just the tool for the job.
The charter tenants for Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center (Cleveland MMCC) were introduced this past Friday, at a groundbreaking held in front of more than 600 business, civic, community, and political leaders.
WHITIA, a global nonprofit social venture focused on bringing affordable healthcare technologies to medical facilities in limited-resource areas has launched the Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) help urban and rural community health centers obtain healthcare technologies such as digital X-ray and telemedicine systems.