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Mar

Meaningful Use Data Begins to Emerge

3/31/2011 8:18:50 AM by Martin M Yadrick MBA MS RD FADA

We’ve been hearing so much lately about Meaningful Use and its incentive payments to physicians (up to $44,000 and $64,000 from Medicare and Medicaid, respectively) for implementing an electronic health record (EHR) and meeting certain criteria. But what about the quality of care and the patient’s role in it? In a recap of a session at the 2011 HIMSS meeting, as reported in the on-line American... read more

Jun

HIMSS Annual Meeting Orlando Florida February 20-24, 2011

6/9/2011 1:55:10 PM by Dawn Hicks_1

Do you ever feel like you live in a bubble? You go to work everyday and work on the same software and applications and forget to look what’s going on around you in other settings? I sometimes don’t even realize what is going on in the world of technology and what other resources are out there. Some times you just have to “look up.” ... read more

Mar

Exploring the TIGER Initiative

3/30/2011 6:23:17 AM by Martin M Yadrick MBA MS RD FADA

The time for the electronic health record is now! Are you ready?... read more

Mar

ADA/AMIA 10x10 Experience

3/10/2011 4:08:02 PM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

Want to learn more about what HITECH means? Are you part of a committee involved in implementing Electronic Health Records (EHR) at your facility? Perhaps you are a student with an interest in technology. Thanks to the cooperation between ADA, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), you can take your interest to the next level. ... read more

Mar

Michael J Fox- Keynote Speaker at HIMSS

3/3/2011 12:30:21 PM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

You may wonder what Michael J Fox has to do with HIMSS and health information technology…... read more

Mar

HIMSS-Linking People, Potential and Progress

3/1/2011 8:01:11 AM by Lindsey B Hoggle MS RD

It has taken a few days to recover from my trip last week to the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. There were a record 31,000 participants in attendance to celebrate HIMSS’s Fiftieth Anniversary! If you are not familiar with HIMSS, they are the one-of-a-kind forum for health Information Technology (IT) vendors, providers, government, a... read more