FDA-regulated digital health solutions are expected to save the U.S. healthcare system more than $100 billion over the next four years, according to new research from Accenture.
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By John Halamka MD – The first part of this week I have been in China – Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Xuzhou as part of a Harvard Medical School program to help the Chinese create a learning healthcare system while they build 1000 new hospitals and train 300,000 new primary care givers.
The six winners of the inaugural ONC Market R&D Pilot Challenge have been announced! These teams will go on to live-test new health information technology (health IT) applications in health care settings administered by their challenge partners. Watch the webinar or check out the descriptions below to find out which teams were awarded $50,000 to fund their pilot programs.
By John Smithwick – Lately, there’s been a lot of noise around the use of big data in health care. As the name implies, big data looks for patterns and trends in extremely large sets of information. And it’s big business.
HIMSS celebrates the positive influence nurses and informatics nurses have on the quality of patient care during National Nurses Week, held May 6-12.
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) announced that Kaiser Permanente will create approximately 900 IT jobs by 2019, bringing Kaiser Permanente’s total presence in Georgia to more than 4,000 employees and physicians.
By Sarianne Gruber – Without Health information technology (IT), how can our healthcare system achieve better patient outcomes at a reduced cost and move from a volume to a value payment method?
By Matt Fisher – Health information technology or HealthIT is in the healthcare spotlight, but remains a constantly changing field. One of the primary initiatives shining the brightest spotlight on HealthIt is the Meaningful Use program.
Online registration for the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting closes Friday January 16, so register today! We look forward to seeing you here in Washington, DC in just a few short weeks at the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting: Interoperable Health IT for a Healthy Nation.