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There are plenty of rumors circulating about when Apple will release the iPad 3, but most reports indicate we won’t see it until 2012. Physicians, –along with the rest of us, are eagerly awaiting its release – and doctors interviewed by Healthcare It News have some strong opinions on the specifications they’d like to see in the device.
As Heather Budd tells it, Ray Lavoie, executive director of Blackstone Valley Community Health Care (BVCHC), which serves uninsured and under-insured patients, believes that a small, government-funded health center like Blackstone can provide care that equals or even rivals the care delivered by the private sector.
Two separate studies, released within weeks of one another, point to the fact that physicians are entering the online space professionally.
As if upgrading the nation’s ICD-9 code set for diseases and treatment to ICD-10, with its many thousands more codes, were not enough of a challenge for health information managers at hospitals and health systems across the country, now there’s this: ICD-11 is not far behind.
Eighty percent of respondents to a March 2011 Healthcare IT News survey of hospital and health system IT professionals showed that achieving meaningful use was top of mind – above privacy and security concerns.
Hospitals are taking steps to avoid overdocumentation, according to clinical informatics experts.
Some of the most devastating tornadoes and floods in U.S. history have occurred in just the last two years. IT professionals who survived the storms say their technology held up well. They felt lucky to have paperless systems in place.
More than 80,000 healthcare providers have signed up to receive incentives tied to the meaningful use of electronic health records.
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has now recognized clinical informatics (CI) as a subspecialty, with exams beginning in 2012 and certification to begin in early 2013.
Maine is a deceptively complex state, with remote sections defined by grid coordinates rather than town names, island communities accessible only by boat and winter storms that make driving nearly impossible. What better place, then, to test a new telehealth service?