By Richard Kronick, Ph.D. – On Monday, June 15, 2015, while attending AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis, I was excited to announce AHRQ’s plans to fund three Centers of Excellence to study how health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care.
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By William Hyman – The recent ONC webinar on “EHR Usability & Health IT Safety” provided three interesting presentations on the design of EHRs and the influence of design on effective use.
By John Halamka MD – In my previous writing, I’ve suggested that the federal government co-opted our Clinical IT agenda over the past three years with Meaningful Use Stage 2, ICD-10, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By Jonathan Krasner – There are a large number of potential attack vectors on any network. Medical devices on a healthcare network is certainly one of them. While medical devices represent a potential threat, it is important to keep in mind that the threat level posed by any given medical device should be determined by a Security Risk Assessment (SRA) and dealt with appropriately.
Co-founder and former President and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Richard A. Correll announced his plans to retire at the end of the month, after 23 years.
CMS is updating select electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) that eligible professionals and eligible hospitals will electronically report in 2016. These versions of the measures were posted on CMS’ website on May 1, 2015 for the annual update of the 2014 measure set.
By Leigh Ann Myers – I recently connected with Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH of The Care Transitions Program who offered some helpful advice for organizations to consider for improving patient care transitions.
Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing.
Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. Here are selected healthcare technology, innovations, and storage Infographics.