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To improve outcomes, choose IT projects wisely
For hospital providers and executives, the ability to align various technology initiatives in order to reach multiple goals can help solidify a facility's reputation as an IT leader. Officials from
Fierce Q&A: CMIO calls Meaningful Use an 'all-or-nothing bet'
While Meaningful Use incentives, no doubt, are a primary driver of hospital and physician adoption of the technology, providers must remember that federal funding is a finite resource, Stanley Huff,
Health IT innovations that marked 2011 continue to roll forward
To anyone involved in the health IT industry, the acceleration in the pace of change over the past year has been unmistakable. Among the major drivers of this change were the HITECH Act incentives
Kaiser, Mayo press for standard product identifiers to improve patient safety
The Healthcare Transformation Group (HTG), a collaborative comprised of five big healthcare organizations--Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, and the
Telemedicine moving from novelty to necessity for hospitals
Tapping into telehealth may be the secret to long-term success for hospitals, according to an intriguing article published recently in Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. The piece opines that
Cleveland Clinic, leading hospitals blast ACOs
Similar to some other renowned health systems, Cleveland Clinic CEO and President Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, condemned federal rules of the accountable care organization (ACO) proposal released in March.
GE: At $2.2B spent so far, healthymagination ahead of schedule
GE announced this week that its "healthymagination" program to improve health and grow its healthcare business around the world is ahead of schedule after Year 2, having so far invested $2.2 billion
Despite information exchange plans, healthcare ultimately is local
The truism "all healthcare is local" seems to have been forgotten in the ambitious plans to hook up far-flung healthcare providers and create a national health data exchange. That was one of the
Health system giants launch collaborative to raise quality, cut costs
A group of high-profile healthcare systems are not waiting around for the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to tell them what works in terms of improving quality and reducing costs.
GE plans to develop new health integration framework with Mayo, other clinics
GE has announced plans to develop a new health IT collaboration framework, commercializing an open architecture, working in partnership with some of the U.S.'s most prestigious healthcare
