The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released a fact sheet that outlines how the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (better known as the “Super Committee”) mandate to cut federal spending may impact health IT. Read More
This week, President Barack Obama submitted his plan to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka the “Supercommittee”) in the U.S. Congress, identifying more than $3 trillion in net deficit reduction over the next 10 years. The plan includes nearly $580 billion in cuts and reforms to mandatory programs, of which $320 billion [...]
The end of the first year of Stage 1 of the Medicare hospital electronic health-record incentive program is coming Sept. 30. Hospital officials wanting to receive payments have 60 days after that to submit their data to the CMS and attest that their organizations have been meaningful users of a certified EHR for at least [...]
While electronic health records generally are touted as being able to save money for the providers implementing such systems, one has been quite successful in saving money for taxpayers in Texas, as well. Read More
By William Hersh, MD August 2011, Clinical Informatics Insights There are unfortunately few options for learning how to use and configure the electronic health record (EHR) during one’s course of study in a clinical informatics or health information technology educational program. One option that has recently become available comes from the Office of [...]
By Joseph Conn Posted: September 8, 2011 – 3:15 pm ET Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Palo Alto, Calif., has experienced a breach of the individually identifiable records of 20,000 emergency-room patients held by a health information technology vendor. The records were posted to a commercial website for nearly a year. “The hospital discovered this on [...]
By Jennifer Gonzalez Washington A day after President Obama unveiled a $447-billion jobs package, a few details have emerged about how the $5-billion allocated to community-college construction would be disbursed. During a news conference on Friday, Carmel Martin, the Education Department’s assistant secretary for planning, evaluation, and policy development, said that if the legislation were [...]
By Jennifer Gonzalez 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education 1255 23rd Street NW Washington, DC 20037 During his speech tonight to a joint session of Congress, President Obama is expected to lay out a series of proposals to revive the stalling economy, and among them may be a call to put more money into repairing [...]
This YouTube recording of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra playing Ravel’s Bolero in a busy train station is a step (or two) out-of-the-box. Watching this extraordinary Musical Flash Mob for the third time, several thoughts come to mind. 1. The opening sequence is a single man standing in a crowded train station with a small drum [...]
An alphabetical list of the companies selected by Modern Healthcare as the Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 2011. Posted: August 22, 2011 – 12:01 am ET Tags: Best Places to Work Modern Healthcare would like to congratulate the following healthcare organizations for being selected as one of the Best Places to Work in [...]
