Interview - HealthCamp's Mark Scrimshire
HIMSS is more important than you may think
This week's HIMSS meeting in Orlando, Fla., is one of the most important business conferences in any field this year. The reason is that rapidly rising health costs are driving federal and state budget deficits and making insurance unaffordable to many employers and individuals. The leading ideas to reform healthcare, including medical homes and accountable care organizations, depend on health IT. So, with the government's program to promote electronic health records and connectivity just starting to hit its stride, what will happen at HIMSS is immensely consequential. Read more...
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Collaborations abound at HIMSS
At nearly every turn at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., last week, it seemed as if companies were teaming up to produce various solutions geared toward improving patient care and lowering costs. Multiple Read more >>
More patient involvement needed in Meaningful Use push
Healthcare providers need to do a better job of engaging their patients in Meaningful Use initiatives and aligning their efforts to meet patients' needs in order to truly have success going into Read more >>
HIMSS news roundup: Free EHRs, Dragon to the cloud, and more
While one- and two-doctor practices apparently aren't rushing to buy electronic health records, Sage Software had one piece of good news to report at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., last week. Since Read more >>
Digital pen holds promise as alternative to conventional EHR note-taking
A 10-year-old form of scanning technology known as the "digital pen" is slowly starting to move into healthcare. Because it's based on paper forms, this method of digitizing data holds promise for Read more >>
HP launches new telehealth push
After Hewlett-Packard bought Palm and it's WebOS, for $1 billion last year, we knew the company was serious about mobile health. This year, HP is following up with a cadre of four new mHealth product Read more >>
Office of Civil Rights carrying out mandate to enforce HIT security
A year and a half ago, when authority for enforcing the security and privacy provisions of HIPAA was transferred from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in Read more >>
Health data exchange, cloud computing among key HIMSS trends noticed by observers
HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla., was notable as much for its timing as for its 31,000-plus participants--a new record--and the positive energy they radiated. The show occurred just as registration for the Read more >>
Wi-Fi Alliance, Continua to collaborate on wireless device standards for home health
The Wi-Fi Alliance and the Continua Health Alliance have agreed to work together to facilitate and promote the use of Wi-Fi wireless networking for personal health and fitness devices. The two Read more >>
GE Healthcare pushing its EMR onto iPad
Anxious to ride the iPad wave, GE Healthcare demoed two new iPad versions of its primary health software, Centricity Advance and Centricity Practice Solution, at HIMSS11 in Orlando last week. The Read more >>
IT companies have vested interest in success of healthcare reform
Health IT has been one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement in recent years, observed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in her keynote address Wednesday at the HIMSS Read more >>
Meaningful Use status leads in importance in HIMSS leadership survey
When asked to identify their current single information technology priority, half of the 326 healthcare senior IT executives and other professionals who participated in the 22nd Annual HIMSS Read more >>
HIMSS hospitals survey: 44 percent ready for Meaningful Use Stage 1
Just about half of the hospitals (44 percent) participating in a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics survey appear to be "likely" or "most likely" to meet Stage 1 of Read more >>
Registration numbers climbing for EHR incentive programs
By the end of January, more than 21,000 providers initiated registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs, Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) Read more >>
Extormity unveiling all about getting down to business
What Extormity CEO Brantley Whittington lacks in couth, NoMoreClipboard's Jeff Donnell makes up for with humor. By now, it's no secret that the two are one in the same, and that Read more >>
Allscripts says it has integrated outpatient EHR with Eclipsys inpatient system
Allscripts is moving rapidly to create a unified platform for data exchange among its inpatient, outpatient and post-acute care applications. How integrated all of its clinical information systems Read more >>
Sentara uses dashboard to drive improvement with EHR data
What does a healthcare system with seven hospitals on an electronic health record and an eighth about to go online do with all that data? In the case of Sentara Health System in Norfolk, Va., they Read more >>
New app will give docs access to records 'anytime, anywhere'
Doctors soon will be able to look at medical records whenever and wherever they need to--and email or video chat with other doctors about those records--thanks to a mobile application created by Read more >>
MEDecision launches EHR app for smartphones
MEDecision is pushing the electronic health record all the way out into clinician's hands with a new app for its InFrame product. The new app, available March 30 through Apple's iTunes store, will Read more >>
Information overload? New personal health card doubles as a credit card
A new hybrid personal health record/credit card released this week by Broomfield, Colo.-based LifeNexus might just be nirvana for patients who have longed for an easier way to consolidate and carry Read more >>
BL Healthcare, Sprint reach 3G agreement
Sprint this week announced an agreement to power remote health management company BL Healthcare's telemedicine products with its 3G network, news that comes on the heels of a BL-Verizon partnership Read more >>
