Tuesday, May 15
As providers continue to seek ways to do more with fewer resources, the limited hardware expenses, ease of use and growing confidence in cloud storage continue to make software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools more enticing, according to a May report from market researcher KLAS.
Friday, May 11
Healthcare organizations are using social media as a tool to connect consumers and providers, according to a May white paper from CSC. And despite what some may believe, social media is not, as CSC purports, a flash-in-the-pan; rather, healthcare should get used to it.
Thursday, May 10
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The medical device industry enjoys a favorable reputation among a majority of patient groups around the world, although perceptions of its performance in particular areas of activity add up to a mixed bag.
Wednesday, May 09
The Markle Foundation has published an addendum to its 2006 Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange (Markle Common Framework), updating a range of issues with information gleaned from the rapid changes made on the health IT front over the past few years.
Wednesday, May 09
Five members of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) will receive special recognition from the organization at the upcoming ASRT Annual Governance and House of Delegates Meeting in Las Vegas, June 29 to July 1.
Tuesday, May 08
Despite worlds of potential, sales of Microsoft's Amalga have been limited and its overall KLAS performance score has dropped 14 points in the last two years, from 84.2 to 69.9, revealing a split personality in customer opinions, the market research firm KLAS found in its newest survey.
Tuesday, May 08
Public health infrastructure should be leveraged and bolstered to improve current cancer screening rates and develop a comprehensive national approach to cancer control, according to an editorial published online May 9 in
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Tuesday, May 08
The American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) has made some changes to its continuing education Request for Approval packet and services, including revising the fee schedule, adding new approval options and improving customer service features.
Tuesday, May 08
Multiple pending Congressional bills call for the repeal of the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax set to kick in next New Year’s Day, but industry lobby group AdvaMed isn’t holding its breath. On May 3, the group—a very insistent opponent of the tax—filed 22 pages of comments with the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) amplifying previous input it has offered and suggesting ways the tax can at least be rendered less burdensome.
Monday, May 07
Various types of information communication technology (ICT) are being employed by private organizations to address key health system challenges. However, for successful implementation, more sustainable sources of funding, greater support for the adoption of new technologies and better ways of evaluating impact are required, according to an article published in the May 1 issue of the
Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
Monday, May 07
The Federation of State Medical Boards' House of Delegates has released new policy guidelines on the appropriate use of social media and social networking sites by physicians.
Thursday, May 03
A tidal wave of healthcare business intelligence (BI) purchases is anticipated in the next three years, according to a new report from market researcher KLAS
. Energy around healthcare BI is increasing at a frenetic pace with 52 percent of providers looking to buy (33 percent) or replace (19 percent) their BI tools in the next three years.
Wednesday, May 02
Storing medical images in the cloud makes distribution faster for patients who want to share images with their physicians, regardless of where the physician is located, according to a preliminary report on the Radiological Society of North America's Image Share project presented April 30 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting in Vancouver.
Wednesday, May 02
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) Analytics EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM) is seeking to get the European treatment. Healthcare organizations BCS and HIMSS have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a project to introduce the adoption model to the U.K.
Monday, April 30
As U.S. hospitals rush to adopt new health IT systems, such as computerized medication ordering, the potential for these advances to inadvertently result in harm to patients remains a major challenge for hospitals and technology companies, according to market research firm, Leapfrog Group.
Monday, April 30
The Clinical Informatics Research and Development (R&D) group at Partners HealthCare Systems in Boston is conducting a clinical decision support (CDS) survey to assess opinions on the state of current and future CDS.
Friday, April 27
Although the federal Medicare incentives will be available through 2016, and Medicaid incentives through 2021, widespread gaps in readiness throughout the states illustrate the challenges physicians face in meeting the federal schedule for the incentive programs, according to an article published in the April edition of
Health Affairs.
Thursday, April 26
As radiology slips further toward commoditization, providers need to find ways to add value to their services using health IT, which means improving the translation of medical imaging IT innovations from the research lab to the clinical environment, according to Paul J. Chang, MD, medical director, enterprise imaging, at University of Chicago Hospitals.
Thursday, April 26
In many healthcare organizations, physicians play an administrative role that is increasingly complex and changing in scope. As such, stipend amounts for nonclinical effort continue to evolve as a component of many physicians’ total compensation plans, according to a report released by Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
Thursday, April 26
At the outset, using local growth factors to set spending targets may better align savings for ACOs with savings for Medicare and reduce the financial uncertainty involved in participation, according to a perspective paper published April 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
