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Tuesday, 5 June 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Fewer hospitals plan to increase capital spending, but more invest in HIT » (from Fierce Health IT) Fewer hospitals plan to increase capital spending this year than last, according to the latest "economic outlook" report by Premier Inc.,...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Video gaming more than just child's play » (from Fierce Health IT) University of Pittsburgh researchers take a serious look at at the benefits of video games as clinical treatment. University of Pittsburgh...
Thursday, 24 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) ICD-10 and SNOMED-CT: Better together? » (from FierceHealthIT) ICD-10 and SNOMED-CT: Better together? A funny thing happened on the way to ICD-10: Suddenly, there's talk of using the Systemized Nomenclature of...
Monday, 14 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Min to scrap electronic health records » (from Prague Daily Monitor) Prague, May 11 (CTK) - The IZIP patients' e-health files project, subsidised by the state-controlled VZP insurer for ten years now...
Monday, 14 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Study highlights how health information exchange can cut costs » (from amednews.com) Giving physicians timely access to the patient information they need at the point of care proved to be financially beneficial to 12 hospitals...
Friday, 11 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Why telemedicine, health IT camps need each other » (from Government Health IT) The telemedicine and health IT camps need to overcome their traditional way of operating in silos and develop partnerships to make...
Thursday, 10 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Europe needs new legal basis for health data, says eHealth Task Force » (from PMLiVE) There has been an "explosion of health data” in Europe and the region’s policy makers must act quickly to put a new legal...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) EC focuses on transformative potential of eHealth » (from PMLiVE) Europe’s annual eHealth Week kicked off yesterday in Denmark with EC commissioners focusing on how new technology can help governments cope with the...
Monday, 7 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Digging into docs' love-hate relationship with EHRs » (from Fierce Health IT) If you ask a doctor what she hates about electronic health records, you're liable to get an earful. But it turns...
Monday, 7 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Employers, Insurers Embracing Telehealth, but Barriers Remain » (from iHealthBeat) More health insurers and employers are beginning to offer virtual physician visits via telehealth technology as a way to curb costs and improve...
Monday, 7 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Enterprise Networking: Telehealth Technology Takes Center Stage at ATA 2012 » (from eWeek) Telehealth technology, which leverages wireless and enterprise networking, is changing the model of how we think about going to the doctor. It can...
Friday, 4 May 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Remedy Informatics Named Cool Vendor in Life Sciences by Gartner » (from Health Tech) Provider of registries for Life Science and Translational research, Remedy Informatics recently announced it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in the...
Monday, 30 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Intrahealth goes native for iOS » Read the full article at Pulse+IT online. Australasia's first and only E-Health and Health IT magazine.
Monday, 23 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) This IT guy could save your life » (from Crain's Chicago Buisness) It's common practice for banks, supermarkets and online retailers to mine the data they collect on customers to rethink marketing campaigns,...
Friday, 20 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Chronic Disease Management Program in New York City Uses EHRs to Help Physicians Improve Patient Car » (from Dark Daily) Seven years into a targeted program to use clinical data to drive measurable improvement in the health of patients with chronic diseases,...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Plan Executives Shift Focus to Technology » (from Insurance Networking News) Payer/provider interoperability, health insurance exchanges among top 10 issues on The Managed Care Executive Group’s radar for 2012. Although the focus...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Fierce Q&A: CMIO calls Meaningful Use an 'all-or-nothing bet' » (from Fierce HealthIT) While Meaningful Use incentives, no doubt, are a primary driver of hospital and physician adoption of the technology, providers must remember that...
Monday, 16 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Why did Google Health fail? » From Pulse + IT. Read the full article on their website...
Monday, 16 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) 9 Recent Studies on Emergency Department Visits » (from Becker's Hospital Review) Here are nine recent studies on emergency department visits, beginning with the most recent. 1. Patients' actual emergency department waiting times...
Monday, 16 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Cleveland Clinic Health System Hosting a Nursing Informatics Institute Event » (from Healthcare IT News) The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community of Profession has seen tremendous success in understanding and exploring the impact of the informatics nurse...
Monday, 16 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) JAMIA: HIE in EDs slashes costs » (from Health Imaging) Widespread hospital support for health information exchange (HIE) and initial deployment only in emergency department (ED) settings can lower overall societal costs...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) 3M purchases healthcare informatics firm CodeRyte » (from Zenopa) 3M has agreed to acquire the Maryland-based informatics company CodeRyte, a leading provider of clinical natural language processing (NLP) technology and computer-assisted coding...
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) India, US to boost health cooperation » (from News Track India) Washington, April 11 (IANS) India and the US will strengthen cooperation in the area of public health by sharing information and...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Apple Medical IT into ehealth » (from Business Line) Hyderabad, April 10: Very soon each individual can hope to carry his/her entire medical history in an electronic format. This will enable...
Monday, 9 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Adaptive clinical decision support improves patient risk estimation » (from Fierce Health IT) Clinical decision support could become more personalized, if the results of a study recently published in the Journal of the American...
Friday, 6 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Americans Spending More On Medications » (from Medical News Today) US medicines real per capita spending grew by 0.5% in 2011, says a new report issued by the IMS Institute for...
Wednesday, 4 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Master's Degree in Health Informatics receives state approval » (from Misericordia University) The Misericordia University Health Care Informatics (HCI) Program has added a Master of Science degree to complement its undergraduate certificate program to...
Wednesday, 4 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Horizon Health Care appoints Clinical Informatics director » (from Prairie Business) Horizon Health Care, Inc. (Horizon) announces the appointment of Gin Wingen to the role of director of Clinical Informatics. In her new...
Monday, 2 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Becoming Accountable: Delivering Value-Based Care Through Optimal Use of IT and Data » (from iHealth Beat) As the leader of an organization that has been "accountable" for nearly three decades due to our long-standing ownership of a health...
Monday, 2 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Bluetooth Device To Automate Patients' Warfarin Self-Test Reports » (from Information Week) Approximately 4 million Americans regularly take the blood thinner warfarin or another anticoagulant, and many of them test themselves at home to...
Sunday, 1 April 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Feds Praise Purdue's Center to Guide the Improved Use of Electronic Health Records Systems » (from PortageLife) The Purdue Regional Extension Center (PurdueREC) successfully reached the halfway mark in its work under a $12 million federal grant initiative designed to...
Saturday, 31 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) What happens when your EHR provider shuts down? » (from ZDnet) Summary: While no medical facility wants to suffer through a data migration, sometimes being forced to upgrade winds up providing benefits. Last year,...
Saturday, 31 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Incentives help PRMC go paperless » (from PrattTribune) Pratt, Kan. — The familiar image of a physician studying a clipboard or folder containing vital data while entering a patient’s hospital or...
Friday, 30 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) AMA to CMS: Reconsider timelines on 'imminent storm' of regs » (from CMIO) The American Medical Association (AMA), along with state and national medical specialty societies, have sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
Friday, 30 March 2012 (0 Comments - view/add) Fewer lab tests sought by docs with HIE access » (from Fierce Health IT) Physicians who had access to a health information exchange (HIE) ordered fewer lab tests for patients with prior test results after...
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