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At first glance, today's healthcare IT titles seem like a game of Scrabble gone haywire: CIO, CMO, CMIO. At a panel discussion at HIMSS Summit of the Southeast in Nashville, Oct. 12, professionals representing all three job descriptions discussed the changing landscape.
New Zealand and Slovenia used the Global eHealth Forum in Hamburg (October 25/26, 2010) to present themselves as innovative eHealth markets.
The nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD, acknowledged that achieving meaningful use of health IT would be hard work, and then told his audience of more than 600 health system and hospital CIOs and IT managers there would be even harder work ahead.
Bonnie Cassidy, vice president of HIM product management at Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed and the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sat down with Healthcare IT News at AHIMA's 82nd annual convention and exhibit to talk about the importance of the health information management profession, and her vision for the future.
The European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) is a flagship initiative of the EU 2020 strategy, which focuses on sustainable growth through ICT. eHealth is a key part of it, said Flora Girogio of the EC’s ICT for Health unit, speaking at the Global eHealth Forum in Hamburg today. The DAE will develop the necessary infrastructure.
As you read this November issue of Healthcare IT News, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. Across the country healthcare IT personnel are beginning to count their blessings.
The inaugural Global eHealth Forum, a successor to the Baltic eHealth Conference, opened today in Hamburg, Germany. More than 200 delegates have already registered for the event, making it one of the highlights on the annual eHealth events calendar from the outset.
Survey data consistently show the public supports health IT but is very concerned about the risks health IT poses to individual privacy. Contrary to the views expressed by some, privacy is not the obstacle to health IT. In fact, appropriately addressing privacy and security is key to realizing the technologyʼs potential benefits.
The need for speed in the emergency department (ED) cannot be overstated because seconds and minutes can make all the difference in ED patient outcomes. Ironically, however, some hospitals’ recent moves to replace best-of-breed emergency department information systems (EDIS) with enterprise electronic health record solutions may jeopardize ED physicians’ ability to provide quality care in our industry’s fastest-paced environment.
Not since the rise of managed care in the 1990s has there been such a surge in the acquisition of physician practices by hospitals and health systems.