Health IT Pulse
February 2011
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UNC Health Care creates health information exchange
- Features and E-Zine Editor 28 Feb 2011 -
Bringing application risk management to health care
- TechTarget 25 Feb 2011 -
HIMSS survey: Give it up for the CNIO
- Executive Editor 24 Feb 2011
UNC Health Care is the latest large health system to establish its own health information exchange (HIE), as providers move toward greater interoperability and medical record sharing. The HIE will ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Given that the majority of health care data breaches occur at the application layer, health care organizations need to make application risk management a high priority. Doing so ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The chief nursing information officer (CNIO) position is often overlooked among health IT leaders. But just try to implement a new tech initiative in your hospital without a nurse ...
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Organization fined $4.3 million for HIPAA Privacy Rule violation
- Senior Multimedia Producer 23 Feb 2011 -
Health care social media: Do it now, says HIMSS 2011 speaker
- Executive Editor 21 Feb 2011 -
ICD-10 conversion impacts meaningful use for HIMSS 2011 attendees
- Features and E-Zine Editor 21 Feb 2011 -
Assess stage 1 of meaningful use before diving into stage 2: CHIME
- Features and E-Zine Editor 18 Feb 2011 -
Tablets, smartphones: MHealth trends to watch out for at HIMSS 2011
- Senior Multimedia Producer 17 Feb 2011 -
HIMSS 2011: Seeing through the smoke and mirrors
- Executive Editor 16 Feb 2011 -
Final MDDS rule deems hospitals medical device manufacturers
- TechTarget 15 Feb 2011
While 30,000 health IT professionals enjoy tropical temperatures and magic kingdoms at the HIMSS 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla., one organization is facing the cold reality of having to pay for ...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Although the Mayo Clinic is definitely on the cutting edge of social media in health care, it took a British rock band to push the hospital from considering it to doing it, said ...
Orlando Health is well on its way to integrating electronic health records (EHRs) in both its inpatient and outpatient settings, and to meeting meaningful use incentives by the end of this year. ...
Health care information technology professionals are weighing in on the proposed stage 2 criteria of the meaningful use program and, much as in the stage 1 process, they're asking for policymakers ...
Mobile health, also known as mHealth, was a hot topic in 2010, and HIMSS11 attendees can expect to hear even more about it at the upcoming conference in Orlando. A recent webinar featuring three ...
Beyond the specifics we recommended in our HIMSS 2011 preview videos and in John Moore's HIE breakdown, the editors of SearchHealthIT.com have a few more can't-miss recommendations for the show -- ...
After a three-year wait, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that reclassifies medical device data systems, or MDDS, as Class I devices that are subject to general ...
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Want to talk to us at the HIMSS conference? Here's some advice
- TechTarget 14 Feb 2011 -
On the road to better hospital Wi-Fi
- Senior Multimedia Producer 11 Feb 2011 -
CMS launches listserv for EHR Incentive Program updates
- Executive Editor 10 Feb 2011 -
Experts begin brainstorming better care, council focus on innovation
- Features and E-Zine Editor 09 Feb 2011 -
FDA approves first medical iPhone app
- TechTarget 08 Feb 2011
Next week is the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference, and we at SearchHealthIT.com are hoping that unlike last year, we don't bring any snow from the Northeast ...
Hospitals looking to implement electronic health records or provide telemedicine services should not overlook the importance of a reliable wireless network. Yet hospitals face a number of unique ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sometimes frustrate the stakeholders in health IT by being vague or even silent when it comes to clarifying the rules of their Electronic ...
Health care experts are tying on their thinking caps in an effort to devise and share innovative practices that will lead to improvements in quality and more cost efficiencies. Dubbed the ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its first approval of a medical iPhone app, Bloomberg News reports. The application, Mobile MIM, comes from Cleveland-based MIM Software Inc. ...