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America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association and lobbying group for the insurance companies, launches its annual conference AHIP Institute at the San Diego Convention Center Wednesday. Healthcare reform and healthcare IT are expected to be center stage. Outside, expect protesters for the second year running.
A developer of real-time location systems (RTLS) for hospitals has developed a new device designed to help patients with heart problems move about more freely and hospitals to keep better tabs on their valuable resources.
Early results of the collaboration between the Social Security Administration and MedVirginia, Virginia’s regional health information organization, demonstrate the business value for healthcare information technology, said Jim Borland, special adviser for healthcare IT at Social Security.
The effects of the economic downturn are driving C-level hospital executives to turn to process improvement initiatives. While only large hospitals can afford the expensive and long implementation of lean methodology, small to mid-size hospitals are finding business intelligence solutions are a more cost-effective alternative.
A report by consumer watchdog Public Citizen claims that nearly half of all hospitals have not submitted a single physician's name to the National Practitioner Data Bank, which provides reviews of healthcare practitioners' professional credentials.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, one of Canada's largest trauma and medical education centers, has automated its patient flow in hopes of achieving a new level of operational efficiency.
As President Barack Obama prepared to meet with Congressional Democrats Tuesday to discuss healthcare reform, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report that highlights both the upside and the downside of technology.
With IT budgets squeezed, physician practices and hospitals are looking to IT vendors for ways to keep their technology projects on track - but those vendors are offering few creative solutions, according to a new report from KLAS.
HealthLINC, an Indiana-based health information exchange, has received federal funding to implement a new e-prescribing solution.
Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.