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Poor inpatient utilization and in-house inefficiencies are the common culprits behind slow throughput, backed up EDs and lost revenue for hospitals, especially with 60 percent of inpatient admissions coming from the ED.
In an era of healthcare policy reform, it isn’t surprising that 81 percent of the top global healthcare executives worldwide anticipate substantial change in their industry.
With healthcare reform teetering in Congress, patients, doctors, nurses, insurance companies and employers should be grateful that one critical piece of reform has already begun to work.
Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain interviews Keith Figlioli, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics. The self-proclaimed "data junkie" was a formerly with Eclipsys as vice president of enterprise solutions.
Task force delivers recommendations on how to launch IT-supported patient care coordination project.
The Office of the National Coordinator’s unprecedented commitment for the development of a skilled health IT workforce is essential to the success of the larger goal to improve the quality of care for each individual in our country by transforming the information infrastructure and using electronic health records to advance the delivery of healthcare.
The departments' fiscal 2011 budget proposal highlights joint electronic health record project, health IT infrastructure.
Banner Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the country, is putting technology to work on managing employee productivity.
Kanabec Hospital, a 25-bed hospital located in Mora, Minn., is making upgrades to its electronic health record, a move that its CEO says is part of its goal for demonstrating meaningful use and operating in a paperless environment.
Australia-based iSoft has signed an agreement to distribute Picis CareSuite solutions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia, Australia and New Zealand.