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Health IT Factors Into Leapfrog's Hospitals Rankings
Leapfrog Group's 2011 list of 65 top hospitals in U.S. highlights facilities that use health IT to prevent deadly dosing mistakes.
Are Health CIOs Ready For Pay For Performance?
With Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements just around the corner, a CSC report says IT managers should prepare with a more robust system that...
Partnership Helps Rural Hospitals Move Fast On EHRs
Anthelio lends project management expertise to help Healthland EHR customers quickly gear up for federal Meaningful Use incentives.
TigerText Investment To Tighten Up Messaging Security
As text messaging among healthcare providers increases, TigerText secures $8.2 million to improve security.
VA Division Saves $742,000 With Telehealth
Northwestern Veterans Affairs network deploys videoconferencing, remote monitors to care for far-flung wounded warriors, extend reach of specialists.
Major Telemedicine Roadblock Could Clear With Proposed Bill
New law would set up national credentials database so telehealth providers would no longer need multiple state licenses.
Tablets In Business: Hard Lessons From Early Adopters 
From garbage trucks to cruise ships, companies are putting iPads and Android tablets to work. Here's what they're learning.
Award-Winning Healthcare CIO Rick Schooler Honored
Hospitals still ran on mainframes when Rick Schooler, named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS, started in healthcare. Now, business analytics and...
Verizon, Health Evolution Partners To Promote Health IT
Communications giant teams with Health Evolution Partners, a healthcare buyout company, to sell Verizon's data-management technologies to health...
Health IT's Newest Ideas: HIMSS12 Preview
Take an early look at 14 of the most interesting health IT products and services that will be displayed at the annual HIMSS conference, happening...
ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
Health IT Managers Say Tablets Can Cause Problems
IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterprise healthcare applications and can raise IT...
Mannequins Recruited To Teach Medicine
SimView captures video, audio, data logs, and simulated patient responses for live observation or retroactive review of medical simulations.
Physicians: iPad Not Ready For Clinical Use
Most doctors still use desktops because iPads lack speech processing capabilities. One expert, however, says iPad EHRs are coming.
E-Prescribing Could Save $240 Billion, Study Says
Surescripts research tracks higher Rx fill rates, better patient medication adherence with electronic prescriptions.
Roomba Maker Sets Sights On Telemedicine
iRobot partners with InTouch Health to develop new generation of 'telepresence' robots that could help people with chronic diseases remain at home.
A Reality Check For Feds' Health IT Projections
National Coordinator for Health IT is predictably optimistic, but observers take a more skeptical view.
Allscripts Broadens Speech Recognition Choices In EHRs
EHR vendor now will offer both M*Modal and Dragon's software to its customers.
EHR Deployment Costs Approach $30,000 Per Doctor
Electronic health records move into the mainstream, thanks to Meaningful Use incentives. Most successful practices invest more in training,...
9 Tech Innovations For Your Health
Wondering if you're having a cardiac event or suffering from a concussion? There's an app for that: Check out these promising health-related apps,...
Stay On Course With ICD10 Plans, AHIMA Urges
American Health Information Management Association says AMA sends the wrong message in calling for halt to the new billing code implementation.
Healthcare IT Needs More Crazy CIOs
The IT leaders who make a difference sometimes break the rules, but their vision and courage drive results for the customers who matter: patients.
Bipartisan Think Tank Tackles Health IT Costs
Bipartisan Policy Center also challenges government and health organizations to devise uniform specs on which to base patient care by June 2013.
Improved Patient Problem List Enhances Diagnoses
New clinical decision support tool gives doctors a better patient problem list, reminding doctors of those medical issues and leading to improved...
The Brave New World Of Enterprise Data Warehouses
Mid-size hospitals know how to analyze their financial, operational, and clinical data. But to survive in the coming pay-for-performance world,...
Pay For Performance: Make Healthcare Metrics Count
Healthcare providers must collect all sorts of quality and other performance data to meet emerging standards. We delve into the huge task ahead.
Futuristic Clinical Decision Support Tool Catches On
IndiGO healthcare software, which predicts which patients will develop chronic conditions and the best interventions to head off disease, signs users.
More Venture Capital Dollars Flow To Health IT
Venture capitalists invested $633 million in medical software and services in 2011, a 22% increase from 2010.
AT&T Tightens Up Tablet Security
AT&T has introduced new security tools that help healthcare providers better protect tablet-based patient data.
GE To Fold Web-Based EHR
Company will shut down Centricity Advance product for small medical practices and migrate customers to Centricity Practice Solution.
Healthcare Startup Incubators Focus On IT
Promising startups given seed money, mentoring in hopes of scoring venture capital.
Can $10 Million Trim $100 Billion From Healthcare?
Philanthropist-backed institute aims to spur technology-driven "common-sense changes in healthcare reimbursement and regulation."
Kaiser Permanente Offers EHR App For Androids
iPhone app coming soon; patients also can securely access health records and email docs via mobile-friendly version of Kaiser website.
Quest Offers Electronic Heath Record Grants
EHR maker will discount the price of its Care360 EHR by 85% to help eligible healthcare providers adopt the technology.
7 Tools To Tighten Healthcare Data Security
Most of the largest healthcare data security and privacy breaches have involved lost or stolen mobile computing devices. Consider these tools and...
IT Tools Help Patients Cut Prescription, Exam Costs
Change Healthcare provides companies' employees with a Web portal, data analytics, personalized text messages, and email alerts to help them find...
HP Wins Blue Shield Health IT Contract
HP will help Blue Shield of California modernize its claims management and membership systems.
VA Telehealth Lauded As Model Healthcare Program
As U.K. report praises U.S. veterans' home health monitoring, it begs the question why telehealth hasn't gained traction across U.S. healthcare...
Cost Still Blocks HIE Adoption, Health Execs Say
A poll of health executives at community hospitals shows budget constraints continue to impede participation in health information exchanges.
Take Care Retail Health Clinics Add Online Scheduling
Walgreens subsidiary's focus on patient convenience puts pressure on primary care practice doctors to follow suit.
Is Personalized Medicine In Your Future?
Proponents say the marriage of health IT and individualized therapy will revolutionize health care. The jury is still out.
9 Tablets Fit For Doctors
Since healthcare pros have embraced tablets in a big way, tablet makers have come up with a few design and feature twists for this demanding...
Ford Shows 'Car That Cares' At CES
Automaker updates in-car health monitoring via Sync system, adds partnerships with Microsoft, Healthrageous.
Telehealth Reimbursement Will Grow, Health Leaders Say
Federal Medicare program for seniors and disabled Americans currently does not reimburse for most telehealth, care coordination, and home...
Happtique Plans Mobile Health App Certification Program
Mobile health app store will look at quality, performance, clinical appropriateness, and technical functionality of growing number of options for...
American Docs Question Health IT's Benefits
U.S. physicians are more skeptical about the benefits of electronic health records and health information exchanges than their international...
What Did Health IT Pros Accomplish in 2011?
National health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari reviews progress on interoperability and meaningful use of electronic health records.
Epic Tops List of Meaningful Use Early Responders
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finds Epic the clear winner among providers rushing to obtain Meaningful Use incentive dollars. But...
Mobile Health Apps Market Poised For Takeoff
Report says mobile health applications will continue to grow as physicians, patients, and health plans use technology to address changes in...
5 Tips For Sending Health Data To Cloud
Health IT managers are reluctant to use cloud computing for data storage, says Iron Mountain exec Ken Rubin. Here's his advice for smart handling...
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