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While HHS and CMS have come forth with some answers to the myriad lingering questions about Health Insurance Exchanges, it doesn’t change the fact that Jan. 1, 2014 remains a tight start-up deadline for states to meet.
The chief of the cardiology department at 400-bed Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida has developed software for controlling heart devices remotely using an iPad, The hospital’s executives say the technology could revolutionize the way physicians reprogram pacemakers.
Brown & Toland Physicians took a giant step recently toward realizing the IPA's vision of providing clinical integration and connectivity for its 1,500 primary care and specialty physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Physician professional organizations are offering online teaching aids for clinicians to get up to speed on patient-centered care because it was not taught in medical school.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, a seven-hospital, multi-campus health system in Memphis, Tenn., recently completed a CPOE implementation after two years of taking a “hard-and-fast” tack. Today, hospital officials boast 86 percent adoption across the system on the inpatient side and more than 96 percent across its emergency departments.
When the prestigious Institute of Medicine called for sweeping changes across healthcare to ensure health information technology is being used safely, the reaction from healthcare providers and policymakers was swift – and mostly positive.
This December, I had the privilege of covering the Third Annual mHealth Summit at the Gaylord. The 65-foot Christmas tree made of synthetic “candy” glass was impressive hanging from the Gaylord’s atrium ceiling, but didn't hold the amazement for me that the information at the summit conveyed. MHealth is booming and will continue to do so until it is pretty much the way things are done.
We wish all our readers a happy, productive and prosperous 2012. As we ring in the New Year, we also usher in a new look, along with a new approach to news reporting. The idea is for Healthcare IT News to more closely reflect the excitement and challenges in the healthcare IT sector today.
The government plans to fork out a total of nearly $70 million in grants to five community colleges assigned with leading a federal healthcare IT training program. But is the Community College Consortia to Educate Health Information Technology Professionals delivering?
In 2010, the Veterans Administration launched the Blue Button, a standards format that allows simple exchange of a patient’s personal health data. Initially designed for use by veterans, the idea has taken off like gangbusters in the private sector and has been supported by at least one major care provider overseas.