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Clinical information technologies has positive impact on outcomes, cost
Greater automation of a hospital's information system can lead to a 15% reduction in mortality rates as well as decreases in complications related to surgery and costs, says a new study by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. After surveying 41 hospitals in Texas, researchers found that hospitals that use computerized order-entry systems reported 55% lower odds of death for patients undergoing surgery for coronary artery bypass grafts and 9% lower odds of death for patients with myocardial infarction. [Read More]
John Glaser comments on CCHIT
Here's another take on CCHIT from the CIO at Partners HealthCare System. Glaser offers two recommendations for how the Commission should move forward with its proposed expansion. [Read More]
Senate's stimulus package includes $5 billion for health information technology
That $5 billion comes on top of roughly $18 billion in the Senate Finance Committee's portion of the bill for health technology. The bills create incentives for doctors who adopt technology that computerizes health records, which experts believe could result in cost savings throughout the health sector. [Read More]
$200 laptops break a business model
If the recession is causing you to rethink how you spend your money on technology, maybe you should follow in this guy's footsteps. A 35-year-old new media manager at a film production company in New York has dropped his cable subscription and moved to watching most of his television online—for free. While shopping for a new laptop for his girlfriend recently, he sidestepped more expensive full-featured computers and picked a bare-bones, $200 Asus EeePC laptop, also known as a netbook. Will consumers like him, and businesses operating with the same cost-cutting mind-set, erode the high-margin businesses of the information technology industry? [Read More]
HHS recognizes healthcare IT specs
Getting us a few steps further down the road toward a nation of interoperable health records, the Health and Human Services Department has formally recognized three new interoperability specifications. Formal recognition is part of a two-step process in which specifications are first accepted by the HHS secretary and then recognized a year later. [Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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Telemedicine project will serve rural Tennessee women
The Tennessean - January 27, 2009
Western NY launches patient record exchange
Associated Press - January 23, 2009
Waste feared in digitizing patient records
Wall Street Journal - January 22, 2009
Incentives push more doctors to e-prescribe
Wall Street Journal - January 21, 2009
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Events & Product News
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Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium
Conference on free open source HIT
Webcasts
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February 20, 2009: ED Overhaul 2009: Five Improvements to Make Today
February 24, 2009: Form 990H: Act Now to Protect Your Reputation
February 12, 2009: Incentive-Based Compensation Plans to Enhance Physician Performance
January 28, 2009: Strategic Marketing Lessons from Other Industries: 5 Innovative Ideas that Work
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Flat-World Healthcare
Globalization is no longer an uncertain trend in the distant future. U.S. providers must refine their organizational strategy to compete in a marketplace that is broader than ever before. [Read More]
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| Service Lines Management |
A Spinal ShiftAs minimally invasive procedures consume a larger portion of spinal care, provider organizations have many opportunities—and challenges—in an increasingly outpatient service line. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
Achieve Optimal Telemedicine Outcomes: Randall S. Moore, MD, chairman and CEO of American TeleCare, talks about why he thinks offering government subsidies to telehealth providers would be a mistake. [Listen Now] |
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