health information technology (HIT)
See the following -
The Use Of Open Source Electronic Health Records Within The Federal Safety Net
Objective - To conduct a federally funded study that examines the acquisition, implementation and operation of open source electronic health records (EHR) within safety net medical settings, such as federally qualified health centers (FQHC). Read More »
- Login to post comments
The VA Waitlist Fiasco: VistA Should Not be Thrown Out With the Bathwater
Without a doubt, the death of American veterans as a result of the VA waitlist debacle is tragic and unacceptable. The Obama administration must move quickly and deliberately to fix the underlying problems and restore faith in the agency. If these issues were common throughout the VA network of hospitals and clinics, it might make sense to consider dramatic, earth-shaking alternatives like moving veterans to private providers and shuttering the VA. But they are not common. Indeed, as Washington Monthly reporter Phillip Longman has documented, the VA’s challenges are regional, not pervasive. Read More »
- Login to post comments
The Year In HIE: Public, Private Sectors Prodded To Interoperability
From the start, 2013 brought some the most scrutiny ever devoted to the issue of interoperability, inside the world of healthcare and broadly in the public. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Theresa Cullen to co-lead Regenstrief's transformational Global Health Informatics Program
Theresa Cullen, M.D., M.S., an internationally respected leader in health information technology and its application in resource-limited environments, has been named associate director of the Regenstrief Institute's Global Health Informatics Program. She joins the institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics as an investigator following three-and-a-half years as chief medical informatics officer and director of health informatics at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Login to post comments
These Graphs Show How Fast Hospitals Are Adopting Computers -- And How Far They Have To Go
On Monday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation published its annual report on health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
This EHR Mess We’re In
Dr. Matthew Hahn blogs about the current state of today’s EHR’s and rightly points out many of the same reasons that I have identified in my previous posts...There are several other important concerns that have been left unanswered by our current Health IT offerings...The solution Dr. Hahn proposed is one that hinges on the hope that government will abandon MU (unlikely given this political climate), and create a whole new EHR development program based on a national competition and then for the government to subsidize the cost of that winner EHR for physicians to use...
- Login to post comments
Threat Matrix: Malware And Hacking Pose Dangers To Medical Devices
'We’re starting to attach medical devices to electronic health records, and they’re not secure.' Read More »
- Login to post comments
Three Areas Where Health Information Technology Needs to Get its House in Order
Health reform is taking off, thanks to pressure from insurers, the promise with which innovative technologies tease us for low-cost treatments, and regulatory mandates dating back to the HITECH act of 2009. Recent hopeful signs for wider adoption of health technologies include FDA forebearance from regulating consumer health apps, calls for more support for telemedicine, and new health announcements from tech giants such as Apple and Google. While technologists push forward in all these areas, we need to keep in mind that several big unsolved problems remain. Let's not get lost in the details--these major issues have to be tackled head on. Read More »
Time For Zero-Tolerance
[...] I wonder why so many “designing” and procuring NHS IT Systems manage to deliver systems that make life more difficult for frontline staff undermining the quality and service they are able to offer patients. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Tolven - A Widely Adopted 'Open Source' Health IT Solution
The Tolven Platform is rapidly becoming one of the more widely adopted open source solutions for healthcare information technology globally. Tolven clients in Europe, North America, and Asia are leveraging the breadth of solutions the Tolven technology provides to support their needs.
Top HIT Trends For 2014: Accelerated Change Is Coming
Healthcare IT News recently published a series of articles looking back at the incredible progress HIT has made over the last decade. The last nine quarters in particular, starting not surprisingly when Meaningful Use checks got posted for EMR implementation, have seen remarkable accelerated change. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments
Top VA Tech Official Pushes Agile Development
The Veterans Affairs Department should engage in more agile development in order to make more responsive and innovative programs, according to the agency’s top technology official. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Two Articles About Openness For Healthcare IT
EHI have reported the openGPSoC meeting we held on Saturday - Funding needed for openGPSoC. Read More »
- Login to post comments
Two Competing Clinical Code Groups Team Up
Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to “improve safety, functionality and interoperability for the rapidly growing number of clinicians who manage and exchange health data with electronic medical records.” Read More »
- Login to post comments
Two Deep Dives Into Open Source EHR
If you're interested in implementing a powerful EHR environment but don't want to pay commercial prices, this article contains some great resources. [...] Read More »
- Login to post comments