Market researcher KLAS spoke with 97 providers to develop a general sense of healthcare professionals’ perceptions of cloud computing and found that those utilizing other technologies were skeptical of web-based data storage even though 58 percent said that they were considering cloud systems.
If clinical engineering is to succeed in converging with IT—and converge the two professions must—many clinical engineers need to overcome a hindering element of human nature: resistance to change.
The balance between the business side of healthcare and quality of patient care is challenging for U.S. physicians, according to a survey from Wolters Kluwer Health, conducted in August. Eighty-eight percent of respondents cited finding this balance as a challenge but most have seen improvements in efficiency and quality over the past two years. Forty-two percent of physicians disagree that the efficiency of providing care has increased, however, and 37 percent disagree that quality of care has increased during this timeframe.
Identity theft prevention service provider Identity Finder reportedly discovered that a website exposed documents containing hundreds of individuals’ health information and database files containing approximately 300,000 names and Social Security numbers of California residents who applied for workers' compensation benefits.
Engaging with and using emerging social media may place the emergency management community, including medical and public health professionals, in a better position to respond to disasters, according to a perspective published July 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
BOSTON—“Building an health information exchange (HIE) and integrating to an HIE is very different from an EHR implementation,” said Ben Stein, MD, president and CEO of the Long Island Patient Information eXchange (LIPIX) during a presentation entitled “Health Information Exchange: How to Play, What to Gain” at the CMIO Summit Clinical IT Leadership Forum on June 10.
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