In West Texas, where unemployment is at 2 percent, the popular chain Chili's had to close some of its restaurants because there were not enough employees to fill the jobs. Imagine what it's like for a healthcare system in that part of the country to recruit IT staff, says Gary L. Barnes, CIO of Medical Center Health System in Odessa, Texas.
The Texas prison system combined a statewide electronic medical record system with the world's largest telemedicine system outside of the Pentagon to create a program that has saved Texas taxpayers nearly $1 billion over the past 10 years, according to the Gartner Group.
Siemens Healthcare has signed a seven-year, $135 million contract with the University of Pennsylvania Health System to provide integrated service management solutions.
I've been thinking about the Strategic Health IT Advance Research Projects (SHARP) Program lately and plan to give an update soon on some of the progress being made.
Many vendors give short shrift to the usability of their electronic medical records, says Jiajie Zhang, who is devoting the next three-plus years to addressing this usability factor - something he believes has been a barrier to physician adoption.
Thomson Reuters released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance in 10 key areas that hinge on IT use.
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.
A doctor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) at the Permian Basin, is conducting housecalls for his diabetic patients, as part of a continuing project in partnership with global healthcare provider healthimo.
HealthGrades, Inc., an online healthcare quality rating and services company, has identified the top 50 cities for hospital care. The list recognizes cities that have the highest concentration of top performing hospitals - those ranked the top 5 percent nationwide for care.
A regional health information organization (RHIO), formed by four Texas hospitals, is serving as a model for electronic health record adoption in rural areas across the country.
With its investment in CardioNexus Corporation, a portfolio company of Houston's Fairway Medical Technologies, Panasonic Corporation of North America has signaled its plans to become a player in the increasingly important field of personalized preventive medicine.
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.
Texas Medical Association (TMA) released the results of its EMR 2009 Report. There is a lot of positive data to be mined from TMA's survey, but the most interesting is the data on those physicians who reported that they do not plan on implementing an EHR.
Better patient care leading to healthier patients, improved outcomes and decreased cost is a bipartisan, uniform goal, declares Congressman Michael Burgess, MD (Texas-26).
Sentillion has unveiled Tap2, a patent-pending, advanced authentication capability designed to give healthcare providers instant access to their primary clinical application with the tap of a passive proximity badge.
Steven Bennett, vice president of recruitment firm Kirby Partners, got right to the point. "I do love your unhappy employees," he told an audience of about 100 CIOs Thursday at the annual fall forum of the College of Health Information Management Executives. "If it’s not me who calls, it’ll be some other recruiter."
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September paid out $25 million to 1400 eligible providers and $61 million to 30 dually eligible hospitals under the meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to Robert Anthony from the CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services.
SRS announced a partnership with Omedix, a provider of government-certified patient-portal systems, that will enable SRS to offer its clients a next-generation patient portal that is fully integrated with the SRS EHR. Capitalizing on its OpenPath technology, the SRS Patient Portal will be available in the first quarter of 2012.
Healthcare information technology is critical to improving the quality of cancer care while also curbing ever-increasing costs, according to a new study from The US Oncology Network, one of the nation's largest networks of community-based oncologists.
Since 2009 when HITECH passed, an average 233 hospitals per year have gone live with CPOE compared with 87 hospitals per year previously, according to research firm KLAS.
