Phoenix Children's CIO on the upsides of Lean IT modernization
Electronic Health RecordsInteroperabilityNetwork InfrastructureTasked with accomplishing what takes some health systems $100 million with less $10 million, the IT shop conceived a new approach that...
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Running list: 2016 notable hires, promotions in health IT
Topic: AnalyticsEHRsElectronic Health RecordsNetwork InfrastructureWorkforceAuthor: Bernie MonegainSlideshow Image: http://m.healthcareitnews.com/sites/default/files/New%20hires_0.jpgSlideshow Title:...
View ArticleRegenstrief Institute selects Ohio State’s Peter Embi for CEO post
Peter J. Embi, MD, will take the reins as president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute in December, the Institute officials announced on Tuesday.Embi, an internationally recognized expert in...
View Article$6.3 million NIH grant to spur use of patient reported outcomes in EHRs
In an effort to advance the use of patient-reported outcomes for research and care delivery, a coalition of nine universities has been awarded a $6.3 million grant by the National Center for Advancing...
View ArticleONC chief sees Carequality patient data exchange in action
Vindell Washington, MD, the National Coordinator for Health IT, visited healthcare clinics and a long-term care nursing facility in St. Louis Oct. 25 to observe data exchange across different EHRs and...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner to receive award from her alma mater
Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner will be honored this fall with a prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.It’s...
View ArticleApple hires Ricky Bloomfield, MD, who pioneered use of HealthKit and...
After advancing the uses of both Apple HealthKit and Apple ResearchKit in his position as Director of Mobile Strategy at Duke, Ricky Bloomfield, MD, is leaving the university to take a job on Apple's...
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Best Hospital IT Departments 2016: Leaders reveal what it takes to build a...
What makes a hospital IT department a good place to work? Is it good bosses, who value your unique skills and treat you fairly? Good colleagues, willing to work together as a team toward a shared goal?...
View Articledrchrono ratchets up EHR for larger medical practices
Electronic health record vendor drchrono released a new version of its software for larger medical practices and provider groups. The company also said it has built the RCM Pro service to optimize...
View ArticleCMS gives providers 90-day reporting period and eases other meaningful use...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave healthcare providers what they have rallied long and hard to get as participants in the Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program: a 90-day EHR reporting...
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C. Martin Harris, MD, Cleveland Clinic's CIO, talks about his pioneering IT...
C. Martin Harris, MD, has been chief information officer at Cleveland Clinic since 1996. During those two decades he's helped establish the health system as one of the leading-edge innovators in health...
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ONC names Phase 1 winners of Move Health Data Forward Challenge
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has named the Phase 1 winners of its Move Health Data Forward Challenge, which seeks innovative uses of APIs than can enable consumers to more...
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CIOs, CMIOs see salaries rise in new survey
Physician executives are in the driver's seat as healthcare reform redefines the ways leadership roles are conceived and compensated, according to the new 2016 Physician Leadership Compensation Survey...
View ArticleMost doctors with EHRs still not taking advantage of their benefits
Electronic Health RecordsWomen In Health IT'Miles to go before we see and benefit from the ROI from fully interoperable digital health records'Jane Sarasohn-KahnInteroperability of medical records...
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Running list: 2016 notable hires, promotions in health IT
Topic: AnalyticsEHRsElectronic Health RecordsNetwork InfrastructureWorkforceAuthor: Bernie MonegainSlideshow Image: http://m.healthcareitnews.com/sites/default/files/New%20hires_0.jpgSlideshow Title:...
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Two Regenstrief innovators win AMIA's Lindberg Award for open source EHR work...
Burke Mamlin, MD, and Paul Biondich, MD, of the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, will receive the 2016 Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the...
View ArticleWhy is telehealth still not as widespread as many think it should be? Three...
The advent of telemedicine has introduced an unprecedented degree of convenience and immediacy, data sharing and communications among care teams and resource availability for value-based,...
View ArticleONC tells Congress: Interoperability must be a priority
The crucial foundation of the U.S. healthcare system and its patients rests upon interoperability and the ability of providers to make the transition to efficient flow of electronic health...
View ArticleNearly 100 things insiders told us about Donald Trump's healthcare plans; The...
Though healthcare did not get the attention during the campaign as many would have hoped, President-elect Donald Trump has already laid out a plan that many feel will cause massive disruption to the...
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MLB to standardize medical information for player trades
Major League Baseball will introduce a standardized format for medical information, which will outline the data that must be disclosed during trade talks, MLB Chief Legal Officer Dan Halem said...
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