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Sec. Leavitt urges healthcare industry to embrace value-based system
Secretary Michael Leavitt of U.S. Department Health & Human Services (HHS) warned that rising healthcare costs in this country are putting our nation in peril in his speech today at HIMSS 2007 in New Orleans.
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Powell calls for government to empower health IT professionals
Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell gave a rousing speech to an energetic near-capacity crowd at the HIMSS 2007 conference in New Orleans yesterday, focusing largely on the value of leadership.
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Hurricanes teach costly lesson on the safety of medical records
After Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita hit, more than one million people had their medical records destroyed or lost permanently, said James Holly, MD, CEO of Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA), yesterday at the HIMSS Conference in New Orleans.
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Defining the human factor in EHR efficiency
Two informatics experts attested to the need to make elements of electronic health records (EHRs) work for people, instead of the other way around, at the HIMSS 2007 conference in New Orleans yesterday.
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Taking off with telemedicine
Joe Tracy, vice president of telehealth services at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, Penn., delivered his talk, “Telemedicine: Make it Work,” at HIMSS07 in New Orleans on Wednesday.
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