December 15, 2011 | Bernie Monegain
Totaling $218 million, the funding is meant to identify ways to reduce preventable complications, infections, and injuries and then to ultimately spread them to other providers.

October 31, 2011 | Mary Mosquera
Despite a seemingly inauspicious beginning, the Department of Veterans affairs anticipates robust security for a new program that seeks to improve care delivery by allowing mobile devices to be used on the job.

October 28, 2011 | Mike Miliard
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will disburse $4.5 million in grants to three centers focused on improving clinical preventive services and practices such as screening, counseling and use of preventive medications for patients.



October 17, 2011 | Dr. John Loonsk
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them?

September 12, 2011 | Dr. John Loonsk
The years since the attacks have seen a series of events that, particularly when taken together, display the need for a broadly interconnected health system.

August 23, 2011 | White Papers
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.

April 1, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
With the objective of improving coordination of care, more and more health care organizations are enabling their care teams to work from the same, complete patient health information. At the same time these organizations need to ensure that such information is appropriately shared with the right stakeholders over time, facilities and practitioners. During this session, Karen Green (CIO, Brooks Rehabilitation), and Eric Moll (CAO, Mason General Hospital) will discuss how their organizations are leveraging Microsoft technologies to unlock new services models that better support their patients, referring providers and bottom line.

December 20, 2011 | John Halamka, MD
The December HIT Standards Committee included a discussion of the work ahead for the next year based on the priorities we've heard from stakeholders.

October 24, 2011 | Steve O' Keefe: My Cup of IT
With salaries rising far less than health insurance premiums, perhaps it's time for something new, such as creativity, innovation, and sanity in care delivery.

September 13, 2011 | Kelly Mehler
On Tuesday, Harry Reynolds, Jr., director of Industry Transformation at IBM Global Healthcare, presented attendees at the HIMSS Virtual Events Forum with his "Value of Care Coordination in ACOs" presentation. Here is a Twitter recap of the lecture.

September 8, 2011 | David Kendrick, MD
Twice in the last four years, the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma's healthcare system among the worst in the nation in terms of access, propensity to lead healthy lives, prevention and treatment, equity and avoidable costs for both adult and children patient populations.

August 3, 2011 | Carl Natale
I know you're not ready for ICD-10 implementation. You have a lot to do. Like update your computer systems.