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Eastern Maine Medical Center, the recipient of the 2008 Davies Award, is responsible for the care of two-thirds of the 33,414 square miles of the easternmost state, with the Atlantic at one side and Canada at the top.
Surgeons at the Henry Ford Health System, a Detroit-based non-profit healthcare system, used Twitter last month to educate the public on a live robotic surgery.
Around the time my son Jason was heading off to begin college, he sent me a brief text message. The apparent purpose was to summarize some useful insights he’d gleaned in the run-up to this milestone. The message was, “the most important thing is to find the most important thing.”
WHILE MANY FACTORS contribute to quality of care and patient safety, few would argue that the accessibility of clinical information is among the most important. When lacking a clear picture of the patient’s
condition – and potential effects of tests or treatments – providers are limited in their abilities to administer effective therapies.
Just as thousands of healthcare IT professionals – techies, policy wonks and luminaries, an actor and an astronaut – sail into The Windy City for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference this month, there’s a new wind at their back.
So who exactly are these critics questioning the relationship between HIMSS and CCHIT?
The Department of Health and Human Services has created the Office of Recovery Act Coordination to help ensure the timely, organized and transparent distribution of economic stimulus funds managed by HHS.
The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has released information online to help organizations participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network.
With the stimulus package passed, healthcare reform looms large on Capitol Hill. President Obama, lawmakers and experts say healthcare IT is destined to play a key role.
The discovery that the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) had lost its corporate standing has unleashed a storm of criticisms and false accusations on the Internet and has the organization fighting to protect its reputation.