As a Healthcare IT Consultant myself, I recognize the importance of having a solid business network. I believe part of that network needs to include business partners who understand the HIT marketplace and offer value to us as consultants. HIT Consulting Jobs is a niche job board focused on matching qualified healthcare IT consultants with short and long term assignments. You can find them at www.HITConsultingJobs.com. Their folks (Sheila Rogers and Renee Brannan) understand the healthcare
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One on One with Ryan Howard of Practice Fusion
Here is a great interview of Ryan Howard of Practice Fusion, a free cloud based EMR/EHR that is positioned for explosive growth in the marketplace.
Ryan Howard came up with the idea for Practice Fusion in 2005. He wanted to build a new way to manage electronic records. Today, Practice Fusion is a free, ad-supported, fully cloud-based electronic medical records management package with 70,000 users. We asked him about the issues associated with managing this kind of sensitive information in
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Ascendian Healthcare, CEO and President, Shawn McKenzie at HiMSS 2011
Ascendian Healthcare, CEO and President, Shawn McKenzie at HiMSS 2011 from MedicExchange on Vimeo.
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David Blumenthal addresses HIMSS Interoperability Showcase
How Healthcare Social Media is Booming at HIMSS 2011
HIMSS Launches Meaningful Use OneSource
Providing current and vital resources for implementation of health information technology to improve patient care, HIMSS continues to add new information to Meaningful Use OneSource, an online repository of hundreds of documents, tools and links to other knowledge available on the Internet. Users can go to www.himss.org/meaningfuluseto find this meaningful use compendium vetted by content experts before its inclusion on the website.
HIMSS developed and introduced Meaningful Use OneSource in
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Live@HIMSS News Coverage
For daily HIMSS news coverage, please click here
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Career Spotlight: Should You Share Your Salary History?
Recently, I received a great question from a member of TheLadders:
"It seems that all articles on the subject suggest that candidates try to withhold their salary history from companies about to make them an offer. What should you do if you try this tactic and the company asks several times for your salary history, and ultimately says that they will not make you an offer until you provide your salary history?"
Well, folks, here's the answer.
Salary-making rule No. 1 in my book is, 'Postpone
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7 Recommendations for Preparing Hospitals for Stages 2 and 3 of Meaningful Use
Even though the final requirements for stage 2 and 3 of meaningful use are yet to be released, the preliminary recommendations made by the Health Information Technology Policy Committee's meaningful use workgroup give a strong hint to what those later stages may require, according to a white paper released by CSC.
The meaningful use workgroup's preliminary recommendations include an increased scope or threshold for most stage 1 "core set" measures. For example, one stage 1 core set measure
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After Blumenthal: A To-Do List
The successor to David Blumenthal, M.D., who has announced he'll resign as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology this spring, will have a lot of work to do when it comes to protecting the privacy and security of healthcare information.
One top priority for his successor will be to work with other agencies to build a consistent approach to protecting patient information, says Deven McGraw, co-chair of the Privacy and Security Tiger Team that's been advising Blumenthal's
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