HIMSS Introduces Health IT Value Suite to Evaluate Success of Investment
As the health sector strives to improve health and healthcare through the optimal use of IT, measuring technology’s impact and value to patients and caregivers…
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What are Your EHR Plans for the Next 12 Months?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The next twelve months present serious EHR scheduling challenges to medical practices. You need to manage and consider the critical…
10 Data Breach Vulnerabilities Revealed
Experts Highlight Top Hidden Exposures That Can Lead to Data Breach It’s not a plot on a TV show. Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities…
AHIMA and CHIME Announce Partnership to Advance Health IT
AHIMA, CHIME to Work Together On Governance and Standards As part of a partnership to advance health information management (HIM) and health information technology (HIT),…
National Pilot Program Launched to Advance Protected Health Information, PHI
Program to Focus on PHI in Electronic Request for Medical Records The Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework was launched to work with healthcare stakeholders in…
Telehealth From the Direct Service Provider Perspective
By Roger Downey, Communications Manager, GlobalMed Linkedin Profile A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the American Telemedicine Association Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. This…
Building Momentum: Expanding Patient Access to Medical Records
Lygeia Ricciardi / Director, Office of Consumer eHealth, ONC Twitter: @Lygeia Last month we at ONC and the health IT team at the White House gathered…
Can Consumers and Health IT Find a Business Model?
by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Twitter: @healthpopuli Two health conferences held on opposite coasts of the U.S. in June both addressed the role of consumers in health from…
Health Affairs Briefing on Health IT Adoption
Health IT Adoption Trending Up Yesterday Health Affairs hosted a briefing to report on the latest trends in health IT adoption among US health care…