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NewsHIT M&A numbers up despite market downturn
Despite recent turmoil in the financial markets, it looks like health IT transactions have had a surprisingly healthy few months. During the first quarter of 2008, 57 HIT deals were announced, equal Read more...
Study: Current health IT bills won't do the trick
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund suggests that the current crop of Congressional proposals to promote health IT aren't equipped to make much of a difference in adoption rates. The report, Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Health IT bills likely to pass; PA RHIO dies; and much more...> While other proposed health system changes may stall, health IT reforms are likely to survive the political process, experts say. Article > A Pennsylvania RHIO has died for lack of a scant $26,000. Not a great sign for small RHIOs elsewhere in the country. Article > Physicians in … Read more...CMS approves Part D e-prescribing standardsCMS has put its stamp of approval on three e-prescribing standards for use in Medicare Part D transactions, after testing them jointly with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. CMS tested a larger group of standards with five pilot sites in eight states, with participants including Eden Prairie, MN-based Achieve Healthcare Information Technologies, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, Santa Monica, CA-based Rand, Alexandra, VA-based SureScripts and University Hospitals Health … Read more...HIMSS: Patient safety top reason for IT investment
In most other industries, IT investment is justified largely in terms of ROI. But last week's HIMSS survey results note, healthcare IT managers have some bigger fish to fry. The new research--the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Another take on secure HIEA Wisconsin task force has completed its research on what barriers exist to creating secure, private interoperable health information exchanges--and it looks like getting even a single statewide health data network going won't be a picnic. Five particularly large obstacles, it found, included developing a common method for validating health information requests, finding ways to share information in a timely way, ensuring that information was complete, discovering ways to tie in … Read more...PwC: Hospital IT can lower death ratesNew research from PricewaterhouseCoopers has drawn the provocative conclusion that there's a meaningful correlation between hospital IT investment and risk-adjusted mortality rates. PwC's research also found that eventually--once a hospital has invested enough--health IT can have a significant impact on hospital costs, operations and quality of care. The study's results are likely to echo loudly in CIO circles, as they do a lot to bolster arguments for a vigorous IT capital … Read more...Consumer-driven healthcare shifts MD tech needsDoctors will do better with consumer-driven healthcare if they boost health IT investment now, according to a new report from health and IT consulting firm First Consulting Group. Not surprisingly, the report concludes that EMR systems will be critical to meeting savvy consumers' information needs. But in the CDH world, a good internal EMR network isn't enough. Physicians will need to store and exchange … Read more...States should lead health info exchange chargeNew research from a Deloitte & Touche health research group suggests that state governments may be the best-positioned players to make sure health information exchanges happen. After all, states already have a great deal of information in hand to leverage, including disease pattern data, prison health data and immunization records, and databases already set up to offer a single view of a given client, say researchers with The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. States are also … Read more... |
