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Hospital IT systems and applications

• Implementing population health management as health IT budgets shrink

  How does a nonprofit hospital system implement population health management when its IT budget shrinks? Christus Health's George Conklin weighs in.  Continue Reading

• At HIMSS 2014, mHealth trends remain under focus

  A blast of new products and educational presentations at HIMSS 2014 highlighted some impressive trends in the growing mHealth market.  Continue Reading

• Big data analytics make Lean methodologies leaner still

  Hospitals are on the right path, applying Lean and Six Sigma to reduce waste and errors. Big data analytics could improve the process even further.  Continue Reading

• Security is top focus in outsourced healthcare identity management

  Co3 drills data breaches; UPMC develops complex healthcare identity management system, offers it to other providers as a service.  Continue Reading

• Quality must be defined to establish pay-for-performance success

  Quality metrics and patient-focused care are the cornerstones for providers' plans as they switch to the ACO model.  Continue Reading

• Automated diagnostics: How supercomputers fit in radiology's future

  Imagine a supercomputer like Watson working in tandem with radiologists to deliver automated diagnostics. Our expert says it's already happening.  Continue Reading

• Not just another health IT term, telecare benefits the elderly

  Amidst a collection of remote patient monitoring terms, 'telecare' has emerged as a word describing proactive care for the elderly.  Continue Reading

• Self-monitoring, proactive alerts among applications of telehealth

  A remote patient visit is the best-known example of telehealth, but the technology's uses and types of patients it can reach are expanding.  Continue Reading

• How the definition of mHealth varies depending on uses cases

  The definition of mobile health has never been clear-cut, but it's more muddled than ever with the increased computing power of mobile devices.  Continue Reading

• Meaningful use stage 2 driving PACS integration, imaging strategies

  It's not a meaningful use mandate, but radiology departments are preparing PACS integrations to move images to physician EHRs and patient portals.  Continue Reading

• Ganguly: Strong patient data standards cure EHR interoperability flu

  CIO Neal Ganguly talks Farzad Mostashari, M.D., National Health IT Week and how stronger patient data standards will lead to EHR interoperability.  Continue Reading

• McCleese: Patient identifiers should top HIT coordinator's to-do list

  CHIME fellow Randy McCleese talks about National Health IT Week, patient identifiers and the challenges Farzad Mostashari's successor will face.  Continue Reading

• Home health computing is the newest wave of healthcare reform

  Patients connected to home computers can better manage their health conditions by accessing personal health records.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine clinics make inroads into primary care

  Two approaches to telemedicine clinics, one where a vendor provides the doc, one where it doesn't, expand telehealth's reach into primary care.  Continue Reading

• Telemedicine clinics: Could they cannibalize primary care practices?

  Franciscan Health System is using Carena's doctors to provide patient care off-hours. It wasn't an easy sell at first, but so far, so good.  Continue Reading