Harvard Medical School news from FierceHealthIT
NewsManagement advice abounds for healthcare technology leaders
The years ahead will be challenging ones for healthcare chief information officers and chief medical information officers. Their calendars are chock full of deadlines, their to-do lists full. There Read more...
Halamka to step down as Harvard Medical School CIO
John Halamka, who serves as the chief information officer both at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Harvard Medical School, announced that he will be moving on from the latter post Read more...
Electronic reminders raise cancer screening rates short-term
After slamming a couple of recent studies on attempts to engage patients in their own care through passive monitoring generously called "telemedicine," we find a study that deserves some credit at Read more...
Health IT standards development likely to speed up
With some core data already defined, it's looking like the pace of health IT standards development is likely to pick up. According to John Halamka, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Read more...
EMRs could reproduce errors, Harvard MDs suggest
According to an article published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the use of EMRs has caused some caregivers to reproduce errors. The article, which is written by Pamela Hartzband, Read more...
| Press ReleasesChildren’s Hospital Boston Joins the Alternative Quality ContractHospital and physicians agree to rate freeze for 2012 BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), Children’s Hospital Boston, Children’s Physicians’ Organization and Read more >> Studies Show that EarlySense’s Contact-Free Patient Monitoring System Effectively Helps Hospital Patients Avoid Pressure UStudy data published in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of Patient Safety WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- EarlySense, a market leader in proactive patient care solutions, announced today Read more >> Aetna and the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School Announce Research Collaboration-- Researchers will use bioinformatics techniques to recommend more targeted health care treatments -- HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aetna (NYSE: AET) and the Center for Biomedical Informatics Read more >> Researchers at Harvard University Report the Adoption of UpToDate® by Hospitals is Directly Associated with Shortening PatEasily-Implemented Clinical Knowledge System is Associated with Saving 11,500 Lives over a Three-Year Period WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New research published today in the Journal of Hospital Read more >> NinePoint Medical Announces New Data Presented on Innovative Optical Frequency Domain Imaging Technology at 19th UEGData Highlights First Image-Guided Biopsy of the Esophagus by Optical Frequency Domain Imaging in Patients CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NinePoint Medical, Inc., an emerging leader in the Read more >> |
