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HIMSS 360° COVERAGE
- HIMSS Survey: Meaningful use to spur heath IT spending in 2010
- HIMSS Keynote: Mobile devices, IT will cause true reformation in U.S. healthcare
- HIMSS: CIO and CMIO--can this relationship work?
- HIMSS: Radiology and IT depts need to marry their skills
- HIMSS Keynote: Blumenthal maps ONC's recent past, daunting future
Featured HIMSS 360° Coverage
AHRQ: Health IT could be disruptive while reducing rehospitalization rates, costs
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).
Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards
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.
Q&A: Maine HIE works through a variety of challenges
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.
Webinar: How-to guide for e-medical device reporting to the FDA
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.
New patient monitoring model draws scrutiny
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.
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