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HIMSS vice president Dave Roberts is running for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors in a non-partisan race. Even there, healthcare is as contentious an issue as they come.
All are anxiously awaiting the ruling due by June's end, but some states are stalling on health reform measures, while others are forging ahead. But even if the Supreme Court strikes down the law, or pieces of it, there are at least 3 aspects states should continue pursuing.
In real estate, it’s all about location, location, location, they say. In healthcare IT, you might say it’s about integration, integration, integration. Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman is keenly aware of how critical product integration is, he says, and he’s working on it. It’s the difficulties with integration that seem to have led to the EHR company’s recent troubles – at least it’s what Allscripts customers and analysts mention most often.
The New York eHealth Collaborative, the New York City Investment Fund and the New York State Department of Health have launched a $4.2 million program to foster health IT innovation and create 1,500 new jobs in the state.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the watershed United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, colloquially known as the Earth Summit, which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
Managing a hospital's operations means dealing with data. Lots and lots of data. That's where executive information systems come in. And as healthcare moves towards hugely different paradigms of care delivery and reimbursement, they're only going to become more crucial to efficient operations.
It is the kind of grade that students are afraid to show their parents – the dreaded D-minus. Barely a notch above flunking, the grade is emblematic of poor performance.
A quick look at the headlines lately shows that "big data" is a big deal. Healthcare is just starting to realize the potential of gathering, drilling down, mining and analyzing those massive troves of information – and more and more signs point to big data analytics making a big difference.
It’s difficult for healthcare organizations to make informed, data-driven decisions when the data they receive from state agencies is incomplete or slow to arrive.
Medical Informatics Engineering finds rewarding niche in occupational health, outfitting the employee clinics of some of the world's largest companies