The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference takes place amid growing pressure on the health care industry and the Obama administration to move forward with interoperability. But HIMSS Vice President for Informatics, Joyce Sensmeier, says the keys for sharing patient data among different IT systems, devices and platforms already exist. She was interviewed […]
According to Health Data Management, Allscripts is actively entertaining offers from private-equity firms for a leveraged buyout to take the healthcare IT company private. The Chicago-based hospital, physician practice and home healthcare software developer’s unexpected move followed two recent negative events–strife within the Board of Directors and failure to win a $302 million contract. Details […]
By Tim Rowan At first glance, discussion of Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the standard by which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will determine eligibility for stimulus payments to healthcare providers, is only of interest to hospitals and physicians. This could be a costly assumption for home health […]
As the Obama Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services struggle to find ways to improve the U.S. standing as 37th-best healthcare system in the world, control rising healthcare costs and avoid rationing care for 76 million Baby Boomers, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, MD, remains convinced that the answer lies in a national patient […]
