The following is a guest post by Katie Matlack. It’s women who are the more active gender on online social networks. Women are the healthcare decisionmakers in most families, too. Taken together, these two facts help explain why women–moms in particular–often are responsible for using the web to bring powerful stories from the grassroots level [...]
PwC Survey Shows that a Hiring Spree is Underway for Health Information Specialists
February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Health organizations are worried that there aren’t enough people with skills to handle the volume and complexity of health information as use of electronic health records grows, according to information released this week by leaders of the PwC US Health Information Technology practice during the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. [...]
AMIA Health Policy Meeting Addresses Shortcomings of Clinical Data Capture and Documentation
December 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AMIA, the leading professional association for informatics professionals, concluded its 6th Annual Health Policy Meeting this week in Washington, DC. Meeting participants identified numerous limitations with existing data capture, recording and documentation approaches, systems and processes. As a result, users often experience significant frustrations such as data overload, documentation redundancies, and data entry inefficiencies. Furthermore, technological capabilities such as the [...]
Washington D.C. Health System Implements WebChart from Medical Informatics Engineering to Manage Military Physicals and Maritime Medicine Worldwide
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) has announced that The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates (GW-MFA) is utilizing MIE’s WebChart to collect, track and manage medical information gathered from field physicals in the Middle East and patient encounters. In Phase One of the project, implemented in January 2011, MIE developed a Web-based system to help GW-MFA [...]
Georgia Based Jeff Davis Hospital Selects Healthland Centriq EHR for Complete Integration and Web-Based Capabilities
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Healthland, a provider of healthcare information technology solutions for rural hospitals, today announced that Jeff Davis Hospital has selected its new electronic health record (EHR) solution, Healthland Centriq™. Based in Hazelhurst, Ga., Jeff Davis Hospital is a 25-bed critical access facility. Hospital officials say they chose Healthland because of its focus on rural hospitals and [...]
Chinese Community Health Care Association Teams up to Provide First Ever Medically Intelligent Search Solution
September 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Apixio Inc., a provider of clinical integration and search solutions for private health data, and Chinese Community Health Care Association (CCHCA), a provider of healthcare to the community of San Francisco, have launched the first ever medically intelligent search solution that enables physicians to securely retrieve clinical information from other providers on a patient’s care [...]
Anthelio Launches A Clinical Help Desk Staffed by Physicians
September 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Anthelio, a company providing healthcare information technology (“IT”) services and business process solutions to hospitals and other healthcare providers, today launched IT-ology™, what they claim is the industry’s first clinical help desk staffed by physicians and other clinicians. The service is designed to provide physicians with an on-demand peer resource to support the rollout and [...]
First Implementation of One-Click EHR Rolled Out on Brooklyn Health Information Exchange
August 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
InterSystems Corporation announced today that the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange (BHIX) is now providing electronic health record (EHR) connectivity that is expected to dramatically speedup care delivery for BHIX clinicians. “The advanced functionality enables physicians to securely access patient records via the InterSystems HealthShare-based BHIX network directly from an eClinicalWorks EHR with just one click,” [...]
Keeping Patient Data Secure – A new report by OptumInsight
Keeping patient data secure can be an overwhelming concern for small practices operating without an IT staff. We all see stories on a weekly or monthly basis of supposedly secure patient data being lost or exposed to the embarrassment and financial detriment of those who fail to keep the information secure. OptumInsight believes that there [...]