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“It’s so frustrating. What can we do?” Several months ago, I had lunch with Linda Reed, CIO at Atlantic Health. After spending a few minutes catching up, our conversation turned to the health IT workforce shortage, and I can remember seeing the weariness on her face as she talked about how difficult it is to [...]
Going down the telemedicine road
computer-assisted physician documentation
The value of HIMSS
Giving back
Staff-retention talent
HIMSS’ Electronic Health Record Association and the American Medical Association (AMA) were among the many organizations to submit comments on the proposed rules for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use, with the HIMSS EHR Association calling for fewer clinical quality measures and more time for EHR upgrades, and AMA looking for greater flexibility on timelines. In [...]
I enjoyed wandering the halls at HIMSS this year. Much like Las Vegas, the booths are majestic, the signage is overwhelming, and it feels like a fantasy world. On the last day, I had a strange thought: “What if every booth only messaged the true, unembellished reality of the company? What would the new taglines [...]
I woke up at 3:30 this morning because I slept half the day yesterday after arriving on a red-eye from HIMSS12 in Las Vegas. We were thrilled that the Annual Conference had record-breaking numbers of attendees and exhibitors. It was a fabulous week of learning and catching up with friends, and I was ready to [...]
I’ll never forget it. It was one of my first meetings at my first HIMSS conference, and it was with not one, but five people at a well-known company. As if that wasn’t intimidating enough, the discussion started with one of them asking me, “What would you like to talk about?” I remember thinking, “You [...]
Seven industry organizations have collectively taken Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius up on her request to learn “the top five solutions HHS can implement to ensure greater success in meeting Meaningful Use Stage 1 for Eligible Professionals and Eligible Hospitals,” by sending a letter outlining their proposals to the secretary. In [...]
Many hospitals started their path toward electronic medical records when HITECH and Meaningful Use became law in February 2009, but Trinitas Regional Medical Center isn’t one of them. Under the leadership of Judy Comitto since it was formed through M&A in 2000, the health system has been continually at work building out its IT environment [...]
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