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Healthcare IT News posts original news stories on its Web site daily. Here are recent top stories, as selected by Senior Editor Caroline Broder.
Warner: Feds should do more to push HIT adoption
The federal government should spend more money to encourage healthcare’s adoption of electronic health records and other IT tools, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner said at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society in San Diego last month. Warner estimated that EHRs could require upfront investments of close to $7.6 billion, but could save the healthcare system as much as $340 billion.
Date: 02/16/2006
Patient safety now the main driver for HIT agenda
Patient satisfaction and safety goals are driving the healthcare IT agenda among providers this year and beyond, according to the 17th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey released at the 2006 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego. When asked to identify organizations’ top IT priorities, implementing technology to reduce medical errors and promote patient safety topped the list for 2006 priorities and placed second among priorities for the next two years. Date: 2/14/2006
Military brings EHRs to Iraq to treat wounded in the field
The US military is enhancing its electronic health record system and is using the technology to help treat military personnel on the battlefields of Iraq, officials told a conference on military medicine in February. The Department of Defense aims to provide a lifelong EHR to every member of the armed services.
Date: 02/01/06
Experts: Imaging advances improve diagnosis, treatment
Advances in medical imaging are changing the way doctors diagnose and treat illnesses. Innovations in imaging can help detect and diagnose diseases earlier, provide personalized treatments for patients and enhance the ability to incorporate these images into electronic records and send them to clinicians instantly, experts told a medical imaging conference this week.
Date: 02/01/06
Bill to call for EHRs for federal employees
Every federal employee within five years will have a basic electronic health record under a bill to be introduced in Congress. The legislation will call for the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program to leverage its buying power to encourage insurers to create portable records that can follow patients wherever they go.
Date: 1/27/06
