Philadelphia-based Drexel University is offering online certification in health informatics and other areas. The online degrees being offered include a BS in Health Services Administration, an Advanced Physician Assistant Studies Program, and a Certificate in Healthcare Informatics.
A team of 700 technologists at Cleveland Clinic are reinventing the hospital experience for healthcare providers and patients as the medical center positions itself as a leader in health-information technology. The medical charts of nearly 5 million patients have been digitized, more than 3 million electronic prescriptions have been filled, and more than 120,000 patients regularly access their full health records online. As a result, the team of doctors, nurses, Web developers and software engineers has improved safety, cut costs, and given patients more control over their care, said Clinic representatives.
MEDHOST, a vendor of emergency department information systems, announced that University of Virginia Health System has chosen its software. The software will be integrated with the Virginia Health’s hospital information system from GE Healthcare.
As the CIO for the rapidly growing storage vendor NetApp, Marina Levinson had to scale the IT organization quickly so that it could handle both current tasks and any other innovation that might be on the horizon. In this interview, Levinson explains how she has organized her team to work closely with the business in order to ensure that IT's investments match the organization's strategic priorities.
The Indianapolis-based outpatient imaging provider Center for Diagnostic Imaging will participate in the Indiana Network for Patient Care. The Network is a health information exchange and a statewide network focused on supporting clinical care with up-to-date, secure, immediately accessible patient information.
Days after the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics announced the theft of 2.2 million patients' billing records containing a variety of personal information, a former patient claims Perpetual Storage Inc. negligently allowed the records to be stolen and exposed him to the risk of identity theft. The patient's attorney, Karra Porter, wants the storage company to fund any credit repair, legal counsel and technical support for patients whose identities are actually misused. Porter said her firm, Christensen & Jensen, also plans to sue the university on behalf of the patient.