The authors discuss the ways in which a single, cohesive, on-site radiology group adds value to both the processes of patient care and the success of the hospital...If the hospital allows its radiology department to become fragmented by the intrusion of other specialists or teleradiology companies in remote locations, most of these added values would be lost, and chaos could ensue. Read More »

Long thought to be stuck in the realm of academic medical universities and small-scale pilot projects, telemedicine – and telehealth, and mHealth, and all the other names being used for this wide-ranging healthcare field – may be turning a corner, thanks to some high-profile implementations. Read More »

Departments across government are making use of open-source products for server management and workspace IT, according to the results of Freedom of Information requests released by the BBC on Monday. However, proprietary stalwarts such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and VMware had much more of a foothold in the organisations polled. Read More »

Professor Kayode Odusote works with countries in West Africa to track, manage, and plan their health workforce using CapacityPlus’s iHRIS software. Recently he traveled to the US from his home country of Nigeria to share successes and lessons learned. Read More »

Brigham and Women’s Hospital cut subsequent diagnostic imaging by 17 percent and subsequent CT imaging by 16 percent after implementing CD import to PACS among emergency department (ED) transfer patients, according to a study published in the May edition of Radiology. The authors characterized the CD import system as a partial success and noted the need for more reliable, health IT-based image transfer mechanisms. Read More »

The Quezon City government is launching on Monday, Sept. 12, an P8.5-million computerization project utilizing UP’s homegrown electronic medical record system called Chits or Community Health Information Tracking System. Read More »

The New England Journal of Medicine has just published a study that compared the differences in health outcomes between paper-based and EHR-based practices, and if all you did was skim the headlines announcing the results you might think all questions surrounding EHRs had finally been put to rest. Read More »

Following an advance notice of rulemaking on metadata standards to support health information exchange, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has announced two pilot programs to test the recommendations on these standards. Read More »

Twice in the last four years, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma's healthcare system among the worst in the nation...Probable culprits for these dismal rankings include a fragmented health system, a chronic and extreme shortage of primary care physicians and the lack of a community-wide focus on improving clinical outcomes. Read More »

This year, MIT OpenCourseWare is celebrating its tenth anniversary. That's one full decade providing open access to more than 2,000 courses with course materials including lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, simulations, and the video lectures. Read More »