Network Infrastructure
Industry leaders gave a thumbs up for healthcare IT advancement over the past year and offered encouragement for achieving "lofty goals,” at a press briefing June 15 hosted by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
The potential benefits of electronic health records (EHR) are far from a new idea. Their promise is both welcome and familiar to administrators and practitioners alike: a healthcare system where patient care information is freed from a paperwork prison so that caregiver productivity is improved and medical errors are greatly reduced or even eliminated. But that promise remained elusive without a broadband investment to support it.
Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman talks with Bernie Monegain about the Chicago EHR vendor's merger with Eclipsys, announced June 9.
A new survey has found that nearly half of healthcare professionals are dissatisfied with their clinical information systems, frustrated by response times that can last a full minute, or even longer.
One in three cardiology specialists are frustrated with the lack of functionality and integration in their cardiovascular information system, according to a new study from research firm KLAS.
For the three million veterans living in rural areas, access to healthcare remains a key barrier, Rep. Michael F. Michaud (D-Maine), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Health, said in his opening remarks at a hearing Wednesday. But the use of wireless technology could help, he said.
Boston's CareGroup Healthcare System, an integrated delivery network (IDN) composed of four hospitals and hundreds of clinics and physicians' offices, has selected the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform to replace its legacy eGate platform for strategic integration throughout the organization.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the formation of HIMSS Analytics Europe (HAE), a German-based company that will provide healthcare organizations, governments and information technology companies extensive data resources and services about the adoption and use of healthcare information technology in Europe.
The Office of the National Coordinator is finalizing the details and design of NHIN Direct, the health information exchange tool-set it is preparing to help physicians and small practices share basic healthcare records securely over the Internet.
Investment in healthcare IT is one priority of the $20 million in funding that was awarded to 39 hospitals and community health centers in Massachusetts.