Government Health IT | Electronic Health Record

Sarah B. Molina, MBA, RHIA, CPHIMS, PMP, CCS

Jon Lindekugel, president of 3M Health Information Systems, speaks with Government Health IT about the newly open sourced health data dictionary and its potential implications for improving healthcare. Hint: Accurate, consistent, and complete clinical documentation.

HIMSS calling all health IT pros!

May 16, 2012 |

Mark D. Sugrue, RN-BC

To meet the demands of a growing healthcare industry, HIMSS offers advice for experienced informatics experts and novices to the health IT workforce alike.

KLAS finds 'plenty of good options' among SaaS EMRs

May 15, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

The software-as-a-service is gaining traction among providers using electronic medical records. A new report from KLAS measures vendors by four key areas.

Report: HIEs failing at true interoperability

May 14, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

Until EHR vendors incorporate shared standards, HIEs will remain in stunted development, where most only exchange very simple data sets, according to a report from Chilimark Research.

VA's 7 steps to protect VLER data

May 11, 2012 |

Mary Mosquera

VA publishes notice of how it will protect data shared with DOD and private providers for virtual lifetime electronic record program.

4 tips for writing HIS policy like a pro

May 11, 2012 |

Capt. Colleen Chianese

Initially daunted by the prospect, Capt. Colleen Chianese realized that her unit in Kuwait needed a policy for maintaining EMRs, so they mapped one out. Capt. Chianese shares what she learned in so doing.

Why telemedicine, health IT camps need each other

May 11, 2012 |

Patty Enrado

By 2015, many EHRs will have interfaces for telemedicine applications, but new national standards are needed to address the fragmentation in EHR and HL7 application, according to a recent panel.

CMS posts names of Medicare EHR payments recipients

May 10, 2012 |

Mary Mosquera

CMS will publish Medicare EHR payments recipients listings in PDF and CSV file formats to search and sort data.

ONC unwraps new health IT dashboard

May 9, 2012 |

Mike Miliard

The Web site, which includes more than 150 maps of ONC data, delivers information on HIT progress to the public.

ONC offers physicians hands-on privacy, security guide

May 9, 2012 |

Mary Mosquera

The manual is meant to be an easy-to-understand instructional tool for physicians and their staff to integrate privacy and security into EHRs.

Q&A: RWJF's Michael Painter on meaningful use Stage 2's impact on public and population health

May 8, 2012 |

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior program officer Michael Painter, MD, discusses how the meaningful use program is creating an electronic records and exchange infrastructure that stands to benefit public health.

OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 5: Information

May 8, 2012 |

Dawn Bonder

O-HITEC director Dawn Bonder on the keys to choosing and optimizing an EHR, the foundational technology health entities need to achieve the triple-aim.

May 31st @ 1PM ET--Hospital Case Study: Overcome Data Protection Challenges, Increase Retention & Restore Data in Seconds

May 15, 2012 |

As more and more healthcare organizations broadly adopt EHRs and face unprecedented data growth, IT staff find it increasingly difficult to optimize data protection and disaster recovery processes. This webinar will discuss how hospitals overcome data protection challenges and get faster, more reliable backups and disaster recovery using disk backup with deduplication. St. Johns Riverside Hospital will share how the hospital cut backup times by 50%, increased retention from one week to three months, and restores data in seconds.

Solving Healthcare Compliance and eDiscovery with Intelligent, Adaptive and Converged Information Management

April 23, 2012 |

In this session, we will look at modern and adaptable strategies to the retention lifecycle of information that frees healthcare providers from the complexities of retaining and accessing data for the long term, while radically lowering business risk.

Secure Physician Mobile Access to Patient Data with Virtualization

April 11, 2012 |

Citrix is redefining IT for a new era in Healthcare. For the first time, you can watch a cardiologist who uses Citrix technology and see how Citrix empowers healthcare through virtual computing. See how easy it is to access clinical desktops from anywhere, securely order medications from any computer or device, access real-time info about patients in seconds, go mobile instantly with desktops that follow users, review real time ER caseloads & allocate resources remotely, enable HD face to face telemedicine, use Citrix HDX plug n play to support voice recognition devices to update patient records and secure patient health information (PHI) on devices.

Better Patient Care: Virtually There

April 11, 2012 |

This IDC Health Insights white paper identifies the key benefits from desktop virtualization in the clinical environment and presents case studies from three hospitals with detailed interviews, adopting desktop virtualization in the clinical environment. Read the report to find out how desktop virtualization has helped these organizations improve efficiency in the IT department, drive adoption of EMR applications, and support clinician mobility with wireless access, various client hardware options, and single sign-on.

The State of EHR Adoption: On The Road to Improving Patient Safety

April 11, 2012 |

Despite being identified as an essential tool to support quality care initiatives, improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs, EMR and EHR systems have been stuck in a slow growth cycle. However, pressure is quickly mounting on caregivers to adopt and demonstrate meaningful use of EMR/EHR technology. Healthcare Informatics Research recently interviewed nearly 500 healthcare organizations to shed light on the current state of EMR/EHR adoption. Download this report to discover how organizations are overcoming obstacles to adoption, how they're benefitting from EMR/EHR solutions, and where the industry is going next.

Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it

October 12, 2011 |

In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.

Delivering the Future of Healthcare: Maintain Compliance, Improve Efficiency and Continuity of Care...Virtually Anywhere

September 29, 2011 |

The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future. Learn how you can deliver the future of healthcare...virtually anywhere.

Proactive Security and Privacy Monitoring for Modern Healthcare Networks

September 8, 2011 |

The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.

The Power of User Virtualization: Meeting Meaningful Use, Optimizing IT and Clinical Productivity

August 23, 2011 |

Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.

Event Log Management & Compliance Best Practices: For Government & Healthcare Industry Sectors

August 23, 2011 |

Records of events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. This log data needs to be collected, stored, analyzed and monitored to meet and report on regulatory compliance standards such as FISMA or HIPAA.

Futureproofing Healthcare with Converged Medical Infrastructure

August 23, 2011 |

The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.

VMware View for Healthcare: Improve Clinician Workflow

August 5, 2011 |

VMware View streamlines desktop and application management, accelerates provisioning and improves security through centralization, resulting in an immediately accessible, always available desktop for healthcare providers. VMware View enables healthcare organizations to quickly respond to changing needs while reducing cost and complexity.

Info exchange moves closer to center stage

May 15, 2012 |

Increasingly, it seems, health IT policymakers, observers and vendors alike are turning to the topic of interoperability and information exchange.

Search for savings sends provider to the cloud

May 14, 2012 |

One of the biggest concerns healthcare providers have when it comes to the digital transition revolves around both the initial cost and the ongoing expense of new health IT.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

May 10, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT: Big Data, meaningful use stage 2 comments, and ICD-10.

California REC marks two years in business

May 9, 2012 |

At a time when many healthcare providers are poring through ONC’s MU Stage 2 proposal to see what lies ahead, the country’s largest Regional Extension Center (REC) is looking back at what it’s accomplished since it was founded just two years ago.

Study points to useful EHR improvements

May 7, 2012 |

From improving population health to making our healthcare system more efficient, a lot is expected from the system-wide implementation of EHRs.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

May 3, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT ... PHI in the cloud, skyrocketing EHR incentive payments, Johns Hopkins on how the ACA promises to improve population health, a Pioneer ACO helping patients manage diseases at home, and more.

Coalition seeks to spur local health IT economy

May 1, 2012 |

More often than not, health IT as an economic engine is considered a topic primarily for federal policymakers.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

April 26, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT ... A look at health issues in this week's primary states, MU stage 2 needs more than SMTP, top 5 hurdles to meaningful use, and Big Data Week.

NCQA awards PCMH recognition

April 20, 2012 |

It’s a given, nowadays, that EHRs are intended to transform the healthcare sector. But what’s increasingly interesting to us is how new models of healthcare delivery are beginning to change our approach to EHRs, and to health IT in general.

Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

April 19, 2012 |

This Week in Government Health IT ... Big Data, the Boston Red Sox, AMA lobbyists' role in ICD-10 delay, and the 5 facets of HIT at greatest risk in SCOTUS ruling.

Survey outlines expanding role of social media

April 18, 2012 |