Justin Barnes is a healthcare innovation executive and strategist now taking his industry knowledge and combining it with his industry network to bring you conversations on health information technology.
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Last week AMA, HIMSS, CHIME and MGMA issued statements calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the 2015 reporting period for providers to attest to meeting the Stage 2 meaningful use.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The job and career opportunities in health information technology (HIT) continue to grow, even though…
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of…
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
Healtheway, a non-profit, public-private collaborative focused on advancing the implementation of interoperable health information exchange, announced the appointment of the Carequality Steering Committee, Advisory Council and two working groups.
Research company Frost & Sullivan have released their latest health IT report, EHR Usability—CIOs Weigh in On What’s Needed to Improve Information Retrieval. The study was conducted in conjunction with CHIME and looks at key issues affecting clinical data contained in EHRs.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum will work together to enhance the development of the Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study, a leading barometer that annually measures the growth of information technology use and adoption among U.S. hospitals.
The technology rift between highly capitalized hospitals and financially struggling hospitals grows wider.