Health-IT-Blog

  1. Teleradiology: A New Frontier In Medical Imaging
    6/16/2011
    When you think about it, the supposedly new discipline of "teleradiology" isn't all that new. Radiologists and other medical imaging professionals have been consulting over the phone for years.
  2. Meditech: What It Is – And What It Isn’t
    6/8/2011
    I'm what you might consider a Meditech lifer. For more than 15 years, I worked in a hospital that had Meditech across almost every area of the hospital. By Lorna Green
  3. Empowering Patients To Proactively Communicate Care From Home
    6/5/2011
    Since 2007 and 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) have publicly reported 30-day mortality measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF) and pneumonia (PN).
  4. Where Does Unstructured Content Fit With HITECH & Meaningful Use?
    4/11/2011
    It has now been two years since the words "meaningful use" entered the Healthcare vocabulary. By Amy Lockton
  5. KM World Magazine Features Perceptive Software And Epic Customer Methodist Hospital
    4/11/2011
    In an article titled "ECM Supports Healthcare," veteran KM World writer Judith Lamont writes about how enterprise content management (ECM) supports the electronic medical record (EMR). By Jeremy McNeive
  6. Interoperability On Display At HIMSS 2011
    4/11/2011
    Each year, the IHE Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS eclipses the prior year in size, number of participants and of course visitors. By John Hansen
  7. Are You Protecting Your Clinical Photos?
    4/11/2011
    Stolen laptops or other portable devices with unencrypted Protected Health Information (PHI) is probably the biggest threat most organizations face in regards to HIPAA breaches. By Amy Lockton
  8. Robert Reich At HIMSS11: HIT Part Of The Economic Solution
    3/1/2011
    "I'm not a class warrior. I'm a class worrier," Robert Reich told a standing-room only crowd of thousands of health IT geeks as he delivered the first keynote address of the annual meeting of HIMSS, the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society. This year's crowd will have reached about 31,000 people interested in health information technology's transformative role in health care. The 31K represents an 18% increase in attendance from last year's crowd. The HIMSS economy is strong.

    By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, health economist and management consultant

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