healthcare: Leadership
ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
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.
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,...
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...
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.
Rhode Island Thinks Big About Health IT
Meet Rhode Island Quality Institute's CIO and see why Medicare thinks other states could learn from his big ideas.
Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped
It's not a security, privacy, or data-sharing problem. It's a patient problem.
Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?
Meaningful Use programs, healthcare reform, and the public's love of mobile devices could add up to patients finally getting fully involved in...
Turbocharge Your EHR With Additional Data Sources
Chances are your clinical information systems are starved for data. Consider adding EMBASE, Micromedix, and other sources.
Is Your Clinical Database Up to Speed?
If the scientific data going into these repositories is flawed, so are your clinicians' decisions.
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Health IT Factors Into Leapfrog's Hospitals Rankings
February 10, 2012Leapfrog Group's 2011 list of 65 top hospitals in U.S. highlights facilities that use health IT to prevent deadly dosing mistakes.
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Award-Winning Healthcare CIO Rick Schooler Honored
February 07, 2012Hospitals still ran on mainframes when Rick Schooler, named CIO of the Year by CHIME and HIMSS, started in healthcare. Now, business analytics and...
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Verizon, Health Evolution Partners To Promote Health IT
February 07, 2012Communications giant teams with Health Evolution Partners, a healthcare buyout company, to sell Verizon's data-management technologies to health...
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ICD-10 Conversion: Do Or Die
February 06, 2012Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
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A Reality Check For Feds' Health IT Projections
February 01, 2012National Coordinator for Health IT is predictably optimistic, but observers take a more skeptical view.
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Stay On Course With ICD10 Plans, AHIMA Urges
February 01, 2012American Health Information Management Association says AMA sends the wrong message in calling for halt to the new billing code implementation.
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Healthcare IT Needs More Crazy CIOs
January 31, 2012The IT leaders who make a difference sometimes break the rules, but their vision and courage drive results for the customers who matter: patients.
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Bipartisan Think Tank Tackles Health IT Costs
January 31, 2012Bipartisan Policy Center also challenges government and health organizations to devise uniform specs on which to base patient care by June 2013.
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More Venture Capital Dollars Flow To Health IT
January 27, 2012Venture capitalists invested $633 million in medical software and services in 2011, a 22% increase from 2010.
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Healthcare Startup Incubators Focus On IT
January 26, 2012Promising startups given seed money, mentoring in hopes of scoring venture capital.
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