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With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.
Sixty-five hospitals have earned the Leapfrog Group's annual "Top Hospital" designation, equaling 2010's record-setting total. The designation, which Leapfrog bills as the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes quality of care.
In August, Healthcare IT News showed how Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, has been providing quality care for decades, thanks to a clinical analytics system that could serve as a model for other healthcare systems across the country.
“There has never been a better time to be innovating in health and wellness,” said Steve Krein, CEO of StartUp Health, when the company was announced at the Health Data Initiative Forum held in New York this past summer.
David Riley and Vanessa Manchester, two leaders of the Federal Health Architecture’s open source CONNECT data exchange initiative, announced the formation of the nonprofit Alembic Foundation this past spring.
In what George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, called a historic announcement, Kaiser Permanente, the Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, the Group Health Cooperative and the Mayo Clinic connected on April 6, 2011, to create the Care Connectivity Consortium – a model for health data exchange that officials touted as being easily replicated at healthcare systems and community hospitals across the country.
The healthcare industry lags when it comes to protecting sensitive personal information, even as medical records are worth orders of magnitude more than other types data. A wake-up call could be in the offing.
When Apple introduced its much-anticipated iPad 2 in March, the event featured a video in which John Halamka, MD, chief information officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, highlighted the clinical uses of the new technology.
In March, not long after the first two Direct Project pilots got under way, Healthcare IT News took a closer look at the collaborative beginnings of the initiative – and explored the promise it held for the future of healthcare.
Registration for eligible providers to sign up for participating in the federal electronic health record meaningful use incentive program began Jan. 3, 2011. The program started off with a bang, and continues to grow.