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If it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the government would not have had the framework and authority to help support the movement toward accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Thursday keynote.
In the final episode of his six-part series on bolstering public health with big data, Roger Foster looks toward big data's promise of preventing health conditions, and outlines some of the challenges, notably the need for data scientists.
David Collins of HIMSS on the theme of this year's show, how the federal health IT landscape has changed since last year, and the hot topics about which attendees will learn.
The Joint Commission has found that communication breakdown is the overwhelming root cause of sentinel events. Terry Edwards, CEO of PerfectServe, an intelligent clinical communications platform, is trying to do something about it.
Eric Swanson, who spearheads Michigan's Center for Shared Solutions and Technology Partnerships, explains the state's MiCloud initiative, benefits, challenges, and the entrepreneurial spirit fueling the transition.
The Black Book report published on Thursday estimates that spending on health IT will triple, and quickly.
Many healthcare providers are nervous about using the cloud, but that may change soon, say industry analysts.
Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting has found a way to put more health IT experts in the field with a new junior consultant program.
Among the states deploying cloud computing infrastructures for a variety of agencies, Delaware and Michigan are aiming to bring public health entities into the fold.
In part 5 of our ongoing series about big data and public health, Roger Foster discusses the ways the healthcare industry can reap better provider performance, reduced errors, and care coordination from big data.