The contract for the San Francisco-based firm is worth up to $5 million for modeling and simulation software to analyze diseases, treatments and delivery settings.
National political pundits seem to have little to nothing to say about Oklahoma. They save the lion's share of punditry for Ohio, as the nation inched its way to Super Tuesday.
Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, explains what impact a delay could have on the broader healthcare industry if CMS ease its stance on the ICD-10 compliance deadline.
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.
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.
HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims to transform the VA's IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to veterans, their families and survivors.
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.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week that it will help enabling the sharing records related to the treatment for drug abuse, alcoholism, HIV and sickle cell anemia with the Department of Defense.
Over 2,500 state and federal law enforcement officials have long relied on the Thomson Reuters CLEAR public-record databases and network analytics to fight fraud. These same resources can also be a powerful tool for healthcare fraud investigators. The discussion on this webinar will explore ways in which public records can be combined with other data-mining methods to improve the effectiveness of both provider and beneficiary investigations.
This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies
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.
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.
In this webinar Dr. Marc Pierson, Lori Nichols, and Brady Davis will discuss how PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center is improving patient adherence to care plans, and community-based care coordination with Microsoft HealthVault Community Connect and Shared Care Plan.
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.
High-acuity patients and surging patient volumes combine to make the emergency department (ED) a care setting with high variability and potential for medical error.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers are now included in the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Hospital Compare Web site, which measures hospital quality based on outcomes of care.
As I travel the world speaking about the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, I'm often asked to present objective evidence that it is making a difference.