Meaningful Use
A new report from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) offers recommendations for reducing or eliminating "tensions" between healthcare IT vendors and their customers – specifically with regard to indemnity and error management.
With the goal of bringing data, documents and guidelines on meeting and exceeding meaningful use into one location, HIMSS has made available a new CPOE Wiki.
There is about a 50 percent failure rate for electronic medical record implementations, and most of those failures stem from poor planning and preparation, said a family physician who spoke at a regional extension center (REC) forum held for providers in Maine.
"What do you really hold dear to you that you want to preserve into the future as you transition to an electronic medical record?" That's the question consulting firm Innovation Partners International posed to Maine providers attending a regional extension center (REC) educational forum this week.
Many physician champions tout EHRs as an enabler for delivering quality care anywhere. Nova Scotia apparently is not full of physician champions.
The Ponemon Institute is releasing the results of its survey of 67 American healthcare organizations and their data breach incidents over the last two years. It turns out that the customer losses and legal fees for the privacy violations rack up an average of $1 million per hospital.
HIMSS, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) have announced a collaboration to develop a model curriculum in healthcare IT, which will be designed for undergrad and grad students in healthcare management programs.
Merge Healthcare announced Tuesday strong financial results for the third quarter of 2010. Revenue for the company grew to $45.2 million in Q3, compared to $16.9 million in the same period last year.
A new report from KLAS delivers some interesting, if not surprising, news: Smaller hospitals are considering large clinical information system (CIS) vendors over vendors that traditionally service the community hospital segment of the market.
The healthcare industry is spending an estimated $6 billion annually on data breaches of patient information, according to the latest benchmark study by Ponemon Institute. Protecting patient data is a low priority, the study concludes.