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Healthcare providers are getting heavily nickeled and dimed on their energy costs without even knowing it, “Green IT” proponents say. And while going “green” may be a high-profile social movement with political overtones, it is actually a concept rooted in pragmatism designed to save money while saving the earth at the same time.
In this NewsMaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain discusses John Glaser's eleven months as adviser to ONC chief David Blumenthal.
Electronic Discovery (“e-discovery”) is the modern version of the traditional pre-trial process of an attorney requesting that the opposing party turn over copies of documents in hopes of finding valuable evidence.
When this and other deals are consummated, the new organizations will be large enough to gain the attention of the Fortune 100. This is how healthcare IT will cease to be so fragmented.
"In today’s final rule, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some important improvements. However, the American Hospital Association (AHA) remains concerned that the requirements may be out of reach for many of America’s hospitals..."
The final rule for meaningful use is here, and now begins the transformation. Now begins the hard work for hospitals and physician practices that have to make sure their technology means something. No one we’ve spoken with in the healthcare field has ever suggested they wanted to use technology for technology’s sake – just to put what they have on paper in electronic form.
Just one year after its launch, officials at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that 57 percent of patients and 40 percent of referring community physicians are using its Web-based portal for personal health information.
Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Va. and Nemours in Jacksonville, Fla. are finalists for the Davies Organizational Award from the Health Information and Management Systems Society. The awards will be announced in September and given during the annual HIMSS conference and exhibition in Feb. 20-24, 2011.
To make sure patients are safe, hospitals have to put their CPOE systems to the test, warns healthcare industry watchdog The Leapfrog Group in a report released last month. Leapfrog, one of the strongest advocates in healthcare for the use of CPOE – computerized provider order entry, called on the federal government to make testing mandatory.
Hospital CIOs across the country reviewed the final rule on meaningful use of health IT with some relief that the government had given up its all-or-nothing approach.