Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS), enterprise image systems, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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The AMDIS Connection: EHR Usability Is in the Eye of the Beholder

One fundamental reason why EHR usability isnt where it needs to be yet is because of lack of use. There are organizations and individuals that have absorbed applied information technology in healthcare, and have had it in place for decades. But as of a year ago or so, the percentage of the medical population in this county that had implemented a full EHR was only between 15 and 20 percent.

JAMA: Health IT has a larger role to play in patient safety

Wider use of EHRs, along with computerized provider order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and barcode medication administration, could play critical roles in addressing the Joint Commissions National Patient Safety Goals, according to a recent commentary in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

JAMIA: Canada has advice for U.S. on national health IT policy

When it comes to implementing national health IT policy, the U.S. could learn from Canada, according to research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

OIG: Lack of data stymies Medicaid EHR incentive verification

Data availability limits the number of eligibility requirements that state Medicaid agencies plan to verify prior to payment of Medicaid EHR incentives, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

AMDIS: Will the political climate change meaningful use funding?

A confluence of events on the national government stage in the U.S. could drastically alter the current path of meaningful use funding and processes, according to a July 13 presentation by David W. Roberts, MPA, vice president of government relations, HIMSS, at AMDIS 20th Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium.

Webinar: ONC HIE efforts gearing up

The national strategy for health information exchange (HIE) is expanding, with more pilot programs, more participants, streamlined processes and additional interoperability initiatives in the works, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Interoperability and Standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

Report: Healthy growth for hospital info systems; U.S. leads way

The worldwide hospital information system (HIS) market reached a value of $7.4 billion in 2010, and is expected to achieve a value of $14.7 billion by 2017, according to companiesandmarkets.com.

Report: HIE tally jumps 9 percent, to 255

The number of initiatives in the health information exchange (HIE) market has grown by 9 percent from 234 in 2010 to 255 in 2011despite consolidation in the field, according to key findings from an eHealth Initiative report released last week.

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