health data management news from FierceHealthIT
NewsSPOTLIGHT: Data-center consolidation
The estimated 32 million Americans who will get coverage under the recently enacted health insurance reform law will generate untold volumes of new data just as healthcare providers are ramping up Read more...
Maine kicks off 15-hospital HIE demonstration program
Maine has kicked off a statewide 15-hospital health information exchange that will involve more than 2,000 clinicians, or more than one-third of the practicing physicians in the state. The Read more...
MN plans PHRs for all citizens by 2011
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) has proposed giving all of the state's citizens access to a personal health record by 2011, beginning the rollout in 2009 with a PHR for each of the state's 50,000-odd Read more...
California RHIO backed by high-powered employer
As regular readers know, I regularly lambaste RHIOs/HIEs, most of which appear to have little chance of financial survival. However, when it comes to a RHIO that attracts the support of a giant like Read more...
Social marketing important for HIT, too
As a reader of FierceHealthIT, you're probably familiar with social media--the vast, amorphous web communications network including blogs, networks like MySpace and Facebook, and virtual worlds like Read more...
CIOs say error prevention is top priority
Investing in technologies which can cut medication errors is a top priority, according to a group of CIOs convened by HIMSS last week. The panelists, who were participating in a CIO roundtable staged Read more...
Study: Gov't health IT spending to spike
New spending on the core systems which manage Medicaid programs--including quality, e-prescribing and health data management--should climb substantially within the next few years, driving much of Read more...
Study: Telemedicine could save $4.2 billion annually
A new study suggests that rolling out telemedicine systems nationally in the U.S. to emergency departments, correctional institutions, doctor's offices and nursing homes could pay off big time, Read more...
Report: RHIOs need governance, technical standards
A new AHIMA report examining how RHIOs and HIEs are run has concluded that the industry sorely needs technical and governance standards--and a fair amount of direct state guidance and support--to Read more...
Health IT could improve hospital (and patient) finances
Smart investments in clinical IT could pay big dividends for hospitals, but may benefit patients more than the facilities themselves over the short term, according to a new report from the Healthcare Read more...
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