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The Cherokee Indian Hospital in North Carolina and the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services each implemented healthcare IT to improve population health outcomes in their communities and the work processes to support that improvement.
Michael J. Kussman MD, the Under Secretary for Health for the Department of Veterans Affairs plans to retire from federal service.
Microsoft Health Users Group (Microsoft HUG) and Microsoft Corp. have announced the winners of the 12th annual Microsoft HUG 2009 Innovation Awards, which recognizes organizations, vendors and systems integrators that demonstrate advancements and success using Microsoft technology in the healthcare industry.
Tuesday's proceedings don't include a keynote, but there's no shortage of buzzworthy happenings at day three of HIMSS09 here in Chicago.
The 20th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey highlighted a firm commitment to healthcare IT, despite financial concerns impacting hospital CIOs' decision-making plans.
In his Monday morning keynote, George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, discussed how his organization has been using healthcare IT to provide 24/7 comprehensive data about a patient to physicians and to "make the right thing easy to do."
There is a great deal of resistance to healthcare reform because industry players make so much money from the current system, said George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Attendees refilled Chicago's McCormick Place Monday morning for day two of the HIMSS09 Annual Conference and Exhibition.
Over 20 years of successful experience with electronic health records makes the Veterans' Health Administration a great model for the public sphere, according to an attendee at Sunday's "Veteran-centric Care: Putting the Power of Technology and Patient Care at the Core" session at HIMSS09.
Actor Dennis Quaid brought the importance of electronic prescriptions and bar-coding close to the heart with the story of the near-deaths of his newborn twins from a medical error in 2007.