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Kaiser Permanente has reported that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with its HealthConnect, a private-sector EHR system.
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 Mary Stevens & Mary Tierney
Change is everywhere…Opportunity is here. The theme of this month’s HIMSS annual meeting has us shaking our heads and saying to ourselves ‘I sure hope so’—we hope opportunity is here, it’s time! For sure, opportunity awaits in the four days of preconference and educational sessions, specialty activities, networking events and career development opportunities that HIMSS has put together this year for the annual meeting in Atlanta and across the vast exhibit show floor. Educational sessions promise actionable information on achieving higher levels of cost efficiencies, EMR adoption, privacy and security, CPOE and quality and patient safety.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Written by Jeff Byers
Healthcare in the U.S. can only be reformed with standard computerization and systematic thinking, said George Halvorson, CEO of healthcare organization Kaiser Permanente, in a Web cast hosted by Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP last week.
The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), which represents approximately 1,800 health IT executives, has announced its annual awards that salute achievement in applied medical informatics. The awards will be distributed at the 18th annual Physician Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., this week.
Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital in Bellflower, Calif., has been fined $250,000 for unauthorized employee access to the medical records of Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets in January this year.
Ninety-seven percent of healthcare organizations in the U.S. rely on remote patient monitoring to improve clinical outcomes for critically ill patients, according to an end-user market study from Spyglass Consulting Group.
Friday, July 30 2010
Friday, July 30 2010
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.