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At first glance, today's healthcare IT titles seem like a game of Scrabble gone haywire: CIO, CMO, CMIO. At a panel discussion at HIMSS Summit of the Southeast in Nashville, professionals representing all three job descriptions discussed the changing landscape.
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Army Medical Department's healthcare construction projects, including the modernization of the Army's current medical facilities and the transition to newly constructed facilities.
Information technology professionals in the United States can expect starting salaries to increase an average of 3.4 percent in 2011, according to the Robert Half Technology Salary Guide 2011.
Vocera Communications, which makes point-of-care communication solutions for hospitals, announced two new acquisitions on Tuesday: Clinical Health Communications and Integrated Voice Solutions.
Online health community PatientsLikeMe is using a data mining incident that occurred on its patient forum to highlight "transparency, openness and privacy," said the company's president.
CCHIT chair Karen Bell says the EHR certification process required for meaningful use is moving steadily in the right direction. "It's a little bit like the Wild West because things are changing so rapidly," she said. "But we're clearly making progress."
Health care agencies across the United States are turning to electronic dashboards to show constituents exactly how their communities rank in health care performance.
Readers on the risks of de-identified data, the importance of the regional extension centers, and a plan to build a health information business rules database.
State taps health information exchange services provider to help build state 'network of networks'.
Senators want to keep a spotlight on IT projects at Veterans Affairs to avoid losing millions in project failures.