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NewsHalamka determined to upgrade DICOM standard for image sharing
John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, had a personal experience recently that showed why the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard for Read more...
Halamka outlines BIDMC's ICD-10 processes, shares resources
While Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, M.D., doesn't necessarily believe that ICD-10 is a worthwhile project--particularly because it is used for reimbursement instead of for Read more...
Management 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...
Interoperability will be a big focus at HIMSS
At least 70 vendors have invited me to meet with them at the upcoming conference (Feb. 20-24) in Orlando of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). To say that there's a lot Read more...
Hackers, peer-to-peer networks, human error all threaten health data security
The great thing about the Internet is that it's global. The bad thing about the Internet is that it's global. Just ask Dr. John Halamka, CIO of CareGroup Health System in Boston. "I spend about $1 Read more...
HIMSS10: More clarity on ARRA means more specific sessions
Health IT changed forever on Feb. 17, 2009. It was on that day that President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 economic stimulus bill that includes an 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...
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