health information technology (health IT)
See the following -
Hospital Nurses Forced To Develop Creative Workarounds To Deal With EHR System Flaws; Outdated Technologies And Lack Of Interoperability, Reveals Black Book
The most instrumental stakeholders of hospital EHR success are undeniably nurses, yet 98% of licensed RN’s agree that they have never been included in hospital technology decisions or design. 13,650 US nurses, a group rarely surveyed as the prime users of inpatient technologies, responded to Black Book’s Q3 2014 EHR Loyalty Poll addressing the difficulties of systems selected by non-clinicians and the impact on patient care...
- Login to post comments
Looking Back At A 2014: Thermidor For Health Care Reform?
As money drains out of health care reform, there are indications that the impetus for change is receding as well...
- Login to post comments
Medical Device Interoperability Could Save $30B A Year, Says WHI
Improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings, according to a new report from the West Health Institute...
- Login to post comments
Nurses Not Included In Hospital EHR Planning
Nurses are being left behind when it comes to planning and implementing electronic health records...The survey of nearly 14,000 U.S. nurses found that 98 percent of licensed RNs say that they have never been included in hospital technology decisions or design...
- Login to post comments
On Spooks And Healthcare: Should We Be Nervous?
An anonymous group of scientists is advising government agencies on futuristic national policies. Sounds like the stuff of a blockbuster action film or, better yet, timeless political satire...
- Login to post comments
ONC Chief DeSalvo Vacates Role, Reider Resigns CMO Post
Leadership changes atop ONC raise questions about the agency’s ability to achieve its long-term plans for interoperability...
- Login to post comments
ONC Rejects Claims Questioning Future Of EHR Certification
EHR certification at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is alive and well despite recent regulatory and organizational developments that might indicate otherwise, claims the recently appointed head of the Health IT Certification Program...
- Login to post comments
OpenMRS Community Launches Major Upgrade to its Open Source EHR Platform
The OpenMRS Community has released a major upgrade to to its widely deployed open source EHR, OpenMRS. The result of the work of more than 100 OpenMRS Community Members from around the world the OpenMRS Platform 2.0 release is the first release of the 2.x family and takes a quantum leap in its base technology as it incorporates the latest web technologies and standards into its modular architecture. At the same time, OpenMRS retains the capability of supporting many legacy features.
- Login to post comments
PSI Wins $120 Million Contract To Provide Department Of Veterans Affairs (VA) Enterprise Testing Service Support Services
Planned Systems International, Inc. (PSI), a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions, today announced it has been awarded a 5-year prime contract to provide a wide range of support services to the Enterprise Testing Service (ETS) branch of the VA Enterprise Systems Engineering Office of Information and Technology Service Delivery and Engineering (OI&T SDE)...
- Login to post comments
Surprise: Every American Will Not Have An Electronic Health Record This Year
In 2004, President George W. Bush kicked off a project designed to provide most Americans with an electronic health record in 2014. That was followed by a similar goal set by President Barack Obama in 2009. But as the end of 2014 comes nearer, these ambitious goals still have not been met...
- Login to post comments
Tech Firms Vie For $11 Billion Military Healthcare Contract As Deadline Looms
As the deadline for bids on a coveted Defense Department contract approaches, teams of technology giants — including IBM and Hewlett-Packard — are competing to modernize the military’s electronic health records...
- Login to post comments
The (Profitable) Potential For Open Health-Care Data
Despite the $20 billion taxpayer investment in health information technology, it still has not reached its full potential. Most offerings are not easy to use or properly integrated into the daily workflow of clinicians...
- Login to post comments
The IT Haves And Have-Nots Of Healthcare Providers
A rift is cracking open between smaller health systems, the proverbial “have nots,” and large highly-capitalized hospital systems. For those have nots, financial sustainability continues to be a struggle as IT costs pull more resources from other priorities, including investments in financial software, emerging patient care technologies and capital improvements, according to a new report from Black Book...
- Login to post comments
The Pentagon Contract That Could Shape EHRs For Years To Come — Epic Pays Out To Win Friends And Influence Congress
GENTLEMEN (AND WOMEN) START YOUR (INTEROPERABLE) ENGINES: The Department of Defense’s $11 billion, 10-year contract for a new electronic health records system won’t just shape military health for the next decade, reports Ashley Gold, it could very well predict the future of electronic health records and their handling of interoperability. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Top 9 Benefits Of Open Sourcing Your Proprietary Medtech Source Code
...While the use of OSS in medical device designs is growing, the opportunity to share that device software with others is something very few medical device companies have really considered...
- Login to post comments