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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
Thursday, March 4, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Over a billion clinical notes are created by physicians in the U.S. each year -- primarily produced through dictation and transcribed. With standards, the output can easily integrate with EMRs/HIEs.
The market for electronic medical record systems will exceed $5.4 billion in North America and $1.4 billion in Europe by 2015, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts, a San Jose, Calif., market research firm.
A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature would impose civil penalties on anyone using health IT products not certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) on or after Jan. 1, 2011.
The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM have partnered to build an EMR-enabled primary care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision of an information-based, connected healthcare system.
With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 offering incentives to physicians to adopt EMR systems in their offices, a new research survey released by SK&A Information Services reveals that 67 percent of medical offices with four or more physicians do not currently use EMR software.
Language and Computing (L&C) has obtained a U.S. patent for a conceptual world representation of a natural language understanding system and method for uncovering data within EMRs, as well as healthcare documentation to automate medical coding and assist with administrative and clinical decision-making.
Hospitals with stronger IT infrastructures enjoy significantly better performance and results from their clinical applications than providers who deploy applications without concurrent investments in infrastructure, according to new survey results from CDW Healthcare.
Although a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine touts the cost and life-saving benefits associated with hospital healthcare IT adoption, lead investigator Ruben Amarasingham, MD, said that healthcare IT should always be accompanied with a strategic, collaborative deployment plan to achieve a successful outcome.
Approximately 40 percent of U.S. office-based physicians use full or partial EMRs and many report systems they use are minimally functional, according to results of a survey conducted by the National Center for Health Services (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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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.