In the few months since we changed our name to Clinical Innovation + Technology, it seems that innovation in healthcare is everywhere.

Does any of this sound familiar to the CMIOs? A physician colleague stops you in the hall to tell you about a cool new application that he or she saw at a conference. “It downloads information from our system and creates a readmission risk score. All we need to do is create the data feed from our system. The vendor said it was easy.”

Consumers have increasingly used social media networks to share news and maintain personal relationships, but healthcare has been slow to establish its presence in this virtual landscape. As more patients turn to the internet for healthcare needs, healthcare professionals are presented with a powerful tool to help bridge a gap in patient-provider communications.

Clinical Innovation + Technology hosted its annual CMIO Leadership Forum, Oct. 4-5, at the Trump Hotel Chicago,
with this year’s focus on “Transforming Healthcare Through Evidence-based Medicine.” Sponsored by Elsevier's Clinical Key.

As of Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began penalizing hospitals for unnecessary hospital readmissions, but a range of efforts to reduce the 30-day readmission rate that draw from clinicians, IT staff and patients themselves have been in the works for years.

Providers across the U.S. are facing the same set of problems. Imaging data volumes are increasing and more storage is needed. Simultaneously, more departments outside of radiology are looking to store images, and some IT departments simply don’t have the storage capacity. Many are finding an answer in the cloud, and with the explosive growth of cloud-based image management systems, it seems only a matter of time before they become
the standard in healthcare.

Early RFID adopter Tallahassee Memorial finds the ROI soft but substantial.

There has generally been broad consensus that widespread adoption of EHRs is a necessary, if as yet imperfect, step in the evolution to better, safer and more affordable care.