Information technology professionals in the United States can expect starting salaries to increase an average of 3.4 percent in 2011, according to the Robert Half Technology Salary Guide 2011.
The government's piece of the stimulus package aimed at boosting the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expected to create 50,000 new jobs – maybe more.
U.S. hospitals are not taking advantage of the opportunities Facebook creates to better engage patients, build healthcare communities or develop their hospital brands, according to a new study.
A national index for measuring and mapping diabetes in the United States has been launched to help prevent the disease and help determine outcomes and costs associated with it.
The U.S. healthcare system comes in last for performance among seven industrialized nations, despite spending the most, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The researchers note that healthcare reform and uptake of health information technology hold promise for the future.
It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.
With telephone services down, social media messaging has played a significant role in communicating to the public during and after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11.
Medical offices owned by hospitals and health systems are the leaders in adopting electronic health record technology, according to the latest results of an ongoing survey released Monday by SK&A, a healthcare information solutions and research provider.
Information technology and data mining capabilities had a role in dismantling what authorities are calling the largest Medicare fraud scheme ever, involving 73 members and associates of organized crime and more than $163 million in fraudulent billing.
A class action lawsuit claims the stimulus act jeopardizes the privacy rights of the 65 percent of Americans who aren't on Medicaid or Medicare by requiring healthcare providers to create an electronic health record of every person in the United States. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to protect personal health information and to prevent the defendants from disbursing the $22 billion budgeted for the electronic health records systems.
Egypt's crisis has raised alarms about national security and economic impact for Americans if regime change leads to an anti-US government controlling a strong ally in the Middle East. This crisis raises another more personal concern for Americans that has been overlooked by the national media: The security and availability of your electronic medical records in the event of a government-imposed "kill switch" for the Internet.
Patients at five-star rated hospitals had a 72 percent lower risk of dying when compared with patients at one-star-rated hospitals, according to a new independent study by healthcare ratings organization HealthGrades.
So many maxims and analogies could be applicable to tackling the daunting work of switching the ICD-9 set of codes for ailments and treatments to ICD-10.
A new whitepaper from GE Healthcare IT highlights the crucial role technology must play in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which affect 1.7 million inpatients each year and are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.
Southeast Texas Medical Associates, a primary healthcare group based in Beaumont, Texas, is using IBM business analytics software to gain greater insight into hospital re-admissions, reviewing trend data to help identify causes and design interventions to prevent patients from having to return to the hospital soon after discharge.
The Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University was awarded three contracts totaling more than $9.2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support healthcare access in the rural United States over the next three to five years.
The U.S. needs to address the challenges of patient privacy and security in order to put healthcare IT to the best use, said ONC head David Blumenthal, MD, Monday at the Medical Group Management Association’s annual conference.
GE Healthcare has successfully linked its electronic medical records (EMR) solution with several non-GE inpatient systems, providing a single view of the patient record that will go beyond the requirements of meaningful use.
Privacy concerns remain the key obstacle in the widespread adoption of electronic health records in the U.S., according to researchers from the North Carolina State University.
Standards organization Health Level Seven International is urging the United States to move full speed ahead with its programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology - with what the group calls "reasonable and important modifications."
