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HIMSS10 attendance was pegged at 27,500 as of March 3--this is not the final count--but it was up slightly from 2009 and about 1,600 short of the 2008 tally. For anyone who was there, 27,500 probably seems like an undercount: The Georgia World Congress Center, which is bigger than many city airports, was filled with enthusiastic attendees and vendors packed two halls.
ATLANTA–At HIMSS 2010 this week, Motorola’s enterprise mobility solutions division introduced its DS6878-HC cordless 2D imager, designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use in healthcare environments.
ATLANTA--At HIMSS10 this week, Philips unveiled IntelliSphere, a new identity for its portfolio of healthcare informatics products.
Written by Mary Tierney
ATLANTA--GE Healthcare this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition rolled out a new clinical knowledge platform and announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform.
Written by Jeff Byers
ATLANTA--Clinicians, heathcare executives, as well as the IT tools they utilize to improve direct patient care will truly revolutionize the U.S. healthcare system, stated Barry Chaiken, MD, chairman of the board of directors for HIMSS, at Monday''s opening address and keynote session at HIMSS10.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--“Information technologies (IT) shouldn’t be the focal point of what’s making [image consolidation solution] decisions. Instead, it should be the users of the system driving the decisions, and the system should be operational 24/7, 365 days a year,” said Jill Wojcik of the nonprofit Continued Health Partners in New York City during a presentation today at HIMSS10.
Loss of patient data and prescription errors are just two potential safety risks associated with health IT (HIT) adoption. As the FDA examines these issues, the agency is questioning how to better regulate this new electronic field and which branch of government oversight is best suited to monitor such safety concerns.
ATLANTA—Meaningful use—a concept introduced one year ago—appears to be spurring an increase in health IT spending along with a brightening economy, according to the 21 annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) leadership survey, released today during the society’s conference.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--The healthcare industry workforce in 2010 is composed of baby boomers who are unable to retire, counting for approximately 35 percent of the employees, said Marilyn Moats Kennedy, MSJ, CEO of Moats/Kennedy during the 2010 CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum.
Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA—Whether enough is being done to protect the rights of patient data, while simultaneously allowing for health information to be exchanged amongst care providers under the proposed meaningful use definitions, became an area of contention during today's Meaningful Use Town Hall discussion during the CIO Forum, co-hosted by CHIME and HIMSS, at the HIMSS10 conference.
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Written by Jeff Byers
ATLANTA--Make sure you clarify and quantify your project management objectives as early as possible to avoid misinterpretation, said Dan Furlong, MBA, project management officer at the Charleston, S.C.,-based Medical University of South Carolina’s College of Health Professions during a pre-conference workshop at HIMSS10 today.
Written by Editorial Staff
Thursday, March 4, 11:15 AM - 12:15 AM
Session leaders from the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs Administration will answer and discuss the following questions: What are some of the most critical imperatives for advancing healthcare delivery in the new age of automation? What are some of the most vexing challenges to leveraging technology as a tool in healthcare? What are some of the key opportunities for transforming care delivery? How does innovation change in the information age of healthcare?
Written by Editorial Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Conventional wisdom dictates that documents are bad and discrete data is good. But the Healthstory project offers a bridge between free-flowing narrative clinical documentation and semantically interoperable data.
Written by Editorial Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Creating a common problem list from diverse EMRs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center raised challenges despite common terminology. The presenters will describe their solution to these challenges, which impact semantic interoperability.
Written by Editorial Staff
Wednesday, March 3, 10:45 AM - 11:10 AM
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Tuesday, March 2, 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
OhioHealth is transforming care delivery and preparing for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding with an interoperable healthcare platform that simplifies access to care, facilitates coordination of care, optimizes treatment and improves satisfaction.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 3:45 PM - 4:10 PM
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Monday, March 1, 2:15 PM - 2:40 PM
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Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Integrated Medical Home program at the National Naval Medical Center leverages personal health records and e-connectivity to support a chronic/primary care model that is capable of sustaining quality healthcare and accentuates prevention and wellness.
Written by Editorial Staff
Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is reached the decade milestone. A vision of a connected and interoperable healthcare infrastructure is one of the most significant healthcare industry efforts of the 21st century. Since 1998, IHE functioning as an international consortium of healthcare professional organizations and industry, has worked collaboratively to foster adoption of standards-based solutions to information sharing in healthcare worldwide.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
