Meaningful Use
Allscripts, makers of electronic health records for physician practices, will buy healthcare information technology company Eclipsys, which provides technology for hospitals and clinicians. The all-stock deal is valued at $1.3 billion.
For the closing keynote session at the HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo, Stephen Ondra, senior policy advisor for health affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, will provide perspective on the industry's most buzzworthy and troublesome phrase.
Ohio wants its commercial payers to incentivize physicians to adopt EHRs in the same way that CMS is incentivizing physicians through the federal stimulus programs. It makes sense.
While today's HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo sessions mainly focus on EHR technology and usability, tomorrow's sessions are mostly concerned with... well, tomorrow.
Would your hospital pass a HIPAA audit? Presenters of a HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo education session will ask this question on June 9, at 1:00 PM CST.
Attendees to this week's HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo will have no less than 23 education sessions at their fingertips. In the age of meaningful use, it's no surprise the majority of these focus on EHR adoption, innovation and usability.
There were many concerns when ARRA funds were first announced, with fears of the digital divide widening being one of the major ones. Thus far, HHS and ONC have done a great job in terms of thoughtful and thorough strategic planning and establishing programs to ensure that those concerns are addressed.
Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), announced Wednesday they will be adding new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge hospitals' readiness.
The worldwide market for Hospital Information Systems (HIS) is positioned for significant growth in the coming years, according to a new study from GlobalData.
A majority of employers and recruiters (52 percent) expect to hire more career professionals in the second half of 2010 than they did in the first half of the year, according to a new survey by Dice Holdings, Inc., which operates specialized career Web sites for professional communities, including healthcare.