Join Intel for a free webcast series next week on healthcare IT innovation. The panels feature heavy-hitters in the health IT arena, including Todd Park, chief technology officer for the Department of Health, and include live Q&A sessions with the panelists. Other participants include:
· Eric Dishman, Intel Fellow
· Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children
· Michael S. Blum, MD, associate clinical professor of medicine, medical director of information technology, UCSF
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Video: Healthcare on Cloud
A 2011 Gartner survey of chief information officers (CIOs) reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. According to Gartner, “This change will necessitate that CIOs re-imagine IT and lead their organizations through a process of creative destruction.”
According to the survey, CIOs will have to think rethink several key factors:
Using IT to support growth and competitive advantage
Understanding
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Athenahealth Meaningful Use
Athenahealth has made it a company priority to guarantee that our eligible clients achieve and get paid for Meaningful Use. 100% of our clients are using the latest version of athenaClinicals, an ONC-ATCB-certified EHR, and we have dedicated significant resources, people and technology to helping clients reap the rewards from this federal incentive program. Watch Athenahealth's Meaningful Use support team in action.
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How to Measure the ROI of Healthcare Technology
Measuring ROI can be broken down into soft costs -- such as patient satisfaction and provider stress -- and hard costs -- those that can be calculated to show a financial return, like improved patient throughput, reducing errors, limiting provider liability and improving cash flow by stimulating faster reimbursements.
It's not uncommon to hear about significant returns in the millions thanks to better coding processes and prescription error reduction.
At one Massachusetts hospital network,
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HIMSS Healthcare IT Awareness Week Activities and Agendas
The Sixth Annual National Health IT Week kicked off today with a Capital Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics Technology Showcase. The annual collaborative forum where public and private healthcare constituents will work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the US healthcare system. There is no better time for the health IT community to come together under one umbrella to raise national awareness!
Comprehensive
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Selects 3M ICD-10 Conversion Software
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected advanced ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into the language of ICD-10. The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool will be used to streamline the code translation process and support ICD-10 transition planning at CMS headquarters in Baltimore, MD.
CMS has also licensed the
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Webinar: Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs: Registration and Attestation for Eligible Professionals
Friday, September 9, 20111:30 PM - 3:00 PM (Americas) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Target Audience:
Eligible Professionals (EPs): Doctors of Medicine or Osteopathy, Doctors of Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine, Doctors of Podiatric Medicine, Doctors of Optometry, Chiropractors, Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Physician Assistants (PA) who practice at an FQHC/RHC led by a PA. (NOTE: Hospital-based EP’s may not participate- An EP is considered hospital-based if 90% or
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GE Healthcare Launches Centricity Business 5.0
GE Healthcare, a leading provider of health information technology, today launched Centricity Business 5.0, their next generation of revenue cycle management solution for hospital networks, academic medical centers, large practice, and physician billing groups. With the rising costs of healthcare associated with healthcare reform and ICD-10, Centricity Business 5.0 will help healthcare providers achieve greater profitability and efficiency by streamlining administrative tasks from front desk to
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Thought Leadership: Managing Healthcare IS Supply and Demand
By Daniel Herman, Founder and Managing Principal, Aspen Advisors, Guy Scalzi, Principal, Aspen Advisors, and Roger Kropf, Professor in the Health Policy and Management Program, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Abstract:
IT governance has been topic of interest for many years, and even though the concept has been embraced within the healthcare industry, the reality is that it’s still not operationally working well within most healthcare organizations.
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CMS Proposes MU Attestation for Clinical Quality Measures in 2012
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals may continue to report clinical quality measures for meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do in 2011, according to two proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Also, just like 2011, the measures must be calculated using meaningful use-certified electronic health records.The provision, with varying language, is in separate proposed rules setting Medicare's hospital outpatient
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