What is the future of medicine? Currently, there is a revolution of changes driven by healthcare reform initiatives, rising healthcare costs and technology.
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For Hospitals on the Edge, Health IT is the Tipping Point
“No aspect of health IT entails as much uncertainty as the magnitude of its potential benefits.”
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Organizing Health Information Exchange with Jonathan Gold, MD Catholic Health Initiatives
Jonathan Gold, MD, regional chief medical informatics officer for Catholic Health Initiatives, discusses his vision for organizing health information exchange and developing physician workflow in this interview with SearchHealthIT. Health information exchange is not just about establishing a repository of static data that sits and waits for people to access it. Instead, clinicians and health IT experts are considering ways that turn data into actionable, meaningful information that can be
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CMS Dr. Thompson Talks Challenges of Meaningful Use Implementation
CMS Dr. Thompson talks challenges of Meaningful Use implementation IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz As chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office in San Francisco, Dr. Thompson serves as the chief CMS clinician for Region IX. She is also the principal liaison with professional organizations in the region with respect to quality improvement and healthcare reform. In advance of the HIT Summit, IHT2 Editor Joseph F. Jalkiewicz spoke with Dr.
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Specialty Article: Growing Pains: Medical Device Interoperability
Both provider organizations and medical device vendors have made significant, if slow-going, progress over the last several years to network their digitally-enabled medical devices. Recent strides in both the regulatory and standards arenas have provided renewed impetus on the part of both stakeholder groups to bring more interoperability to disparate medical devices, resulting in better security and quality of patient data.As healthcare providers continue their steady march toward implementing
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