Category: Analytics

Nearly half of large hospitals will be making a new electronic medical record (EMR) purchase by 2016, according to a recent report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS research. Of those planning on making a change, Verona, Wisc.-based Epic and Kansas City-based Cerner are the leading contenders among EMR vendors. Nearly half of large hospitals will…

0 From the continued dispute over the meaningful use and ICD-10 regulations to the rising tide of consumer-facing technologies made with actual consumers in mind, HIMSS14 gave me a lot to reflect on. Here a few things I’ll take away from my five days in Orlando. Once again, it has come and gone. Another year,…

Amid the madness of the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference last week in Orlando, nonprofits, Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), announced they were creating a Practice Management System Accreditation Program (PMSAP). Amid the madness of the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems…

CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner told HIMSS14 attendees last week that both ICD-10 implementation and Meaningful Use deadlines remain unchanged. However, her agency promised to perform end-to-end testing for ICD-10, and it plans to make it easier for providers to obtain hardship exceptions if they are not able to meet MU requirements in 2014. CMS Reacts…

Nurse informaticists continue to play a crucial role in the development, implementation and optimization of information systems and applications in healthcare, according to a study released at HIMSS14. Nurse informaticists continue to play a crucial role in the development, implementation and optimization of information systems and applications in healthcare, according to a study released at…

When it comes to hospital mergers and acquisitions, technology and informatics processes often times may be relegated to afterthought status as financial and business objectives win priority. To that end, Joseph Schneider, VP and CMIO for the north division of Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, stresses the importance of both education and patience.…

A new study suggests that an increase in healthcare provider use of cloud technology plus a decrease in the cost of IT implementation could lead to big changes in the US healthcare IT market. According to market research consulting firm RCNOS, between now and 2018, the health IT market will grow at a compound annual…

As presented in a HIMSS14 virtual session the week of Feb. 23, leaders at North York General Hospital offered insights on the successful integration of CPOE and clinical decision support within an EMR When evidence-based order sets of a computerized physician order entry system (CPOE), together with real-time clinical decision support (CDS), are used by…

Black Book Rankings has unveiled its top-ranked EHRs for 2014, scoring vendors across six different client experience categories. read more …read more    

University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center, which is part of the large University Hospitals health system out of Cleveland, is a Stage 6 EMRAM (EMR Adoption Model) hospital using technology to drive population health management in a challenging community. At HIMSS, the chief clinical and information officer let us know how they’ve done it. read more…