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New financial and regu-latory changes have opened the door for rapid growth emerging market of infection control software, according to forecasts from Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS. But an organization of hospital infection control personnel says hospitals don’t have the money.
A Seattle-based company that has built and is operating 13 hospitals in Asia is poised to grow by 18 more in Malaysia, India and Vietnam by the end of 2011, and it could serve as inspiration across the United States on how to do more with less.
Recently I attented the Tenth Annual Innovation 2009 Conference in California. One of the issues garnering a lot of attention was the notion that the Obama healthcare reform plan could ultimately wind up creating a government-run insurer.
The demand for new and more advanced IT systems has never been greater.
There is no denying that achieving President Obama’s goal, now law, of having electronic health records for every American by 2014 is a daunting task and one that challenges most healthcare organizations.
As hospital systems and other healthcare providers with complex organizations – struggle to prepare for health reform and advances in health IT, a simple procedural approach will help.
Many of us probably have had our fill of talk about “meaningful use.” Perhaps some of us thought we would have the last word on it on June 16 when the federal Health IT Policy Committee provided some recommended criteria to the nation’s healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal.
Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has unveiled the beta release of the Office of Management and Budget's IT Dashboard, a new Web site that tracks federal information technology investments.
Economically healthy industries empower workers to make decisions, compensate based on productivity and use a lot of information technology. The healthcare industry doesn't do any of this – yet.
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a not-for-profit organization providing care in more than 30 pediatric specialties, has launched a new Web site focused on a family approach to healthy lifestyles.