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Written by Rene Letourneau for Healthcare Finance News In its 2011 annual report on quality and safety released Wednesday, The Joint Commission named the 405 best performing hospitals in the United States. For the first time, the report “Improving America’s Hospitals” lists hospitals and critical access hospitals that are top performers in using evidence-based care…
By Florian Schwiecker for HIT Exchange There’s broad consensus today that automating clinical workflow can help improve patient care and save money. But while many practices are implementing sophisticated EHR systems, their dictation methods haven’t changed much since the 1960s. Many doctors still dictate into analog recorders that have been around since The Beatles’ heyday.…
By Michael E Hilts for Health Management Technology Healthcare CIOs have their hands full with meaningful-use missions and other priorities. But their pockets are fuller, too, with a growing compensation and healthy bonuses. One could say that healthcare chief information officers are in their heyday. In fact, times might not get much better, or busier,…
Written by David Lee Scher, MD, FACP, FACC, FESC, FHRS for Healthcare IT News Blog By all accounts, the current status of adoption of EHR in the USA is slower than anticipated by the government. There are multiple reasons both from the mandate side and the provider side. Small practices are finding financial and administrative…
By John Moore for SearchHealthIT.com Health care providers over the years have raised a number of objections to electronic health records — they cost too much, disrupt practices already pressed for time and fail to mesh with the way medical offices work. But there’s an even more fundamental digital challenge — some doctors don’t want…
BY Francine Hardaway for Fast Company As the last of the large American industries to undergo forcible automation, healthcare is currently in a state of prolonged agony. The HealthTech NextGen 2011 Conference, held in San Francisco recently, highlighted this by calling attention to at least 6 disruptive changes that are still ahead in healthcare. These…
By Molly Merrill, Associate Editor, HealthCare IT News In its 13th year, the Most Wired hospitals and health systems list, put out by Hospitals & Health Networks, seems to have upped its value as an indicator of hospital care, rather than just a marketing tool. The hospitals on this year’s list showed strides in computerized…
By Gregory Machler, originally posted at Computerworld.com Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to…
Written by Jaimie Oh, Originally posted at Becker’s Hospital Review Here are the 50 top grossing non-profit hospitals in the United States listed by gross revenue, according to CMS cost report data analyzed by American Hospital Directory. Note: The hospital total patient revenues reported here are reported to CMS by the hospitals in their most…
Originally published in TransWorldNews.Com The global Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market was valued at $7.4 billion in 2010, and is forecast to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10% to reach about $14.7 billion by 2017. The high growth forecast for the period 2010-2017 is significantly influenced by accelerated efforts from the…