Search Tag: HIT
2017 16 Feb
HealthManagement.org is excited to introduce our new Editor-in-Chief for Healthcare IT. Christian Lovis, MD, MPH, FACMI, has taken over the role from Christian Marolt who has stepped into the position of Executive Director at HealthManagement.org. Lovis is head of the Division of Medical Information Sciences, University Hospitals of Geneva and...Read more
2016 15 Dec
Drew Ivan was one of the winners in the recent ONC Blockchain Ideation Challenge which focused on use of the technology in healthcare security. He is Director of Business Technology at Orion Health. Drew answered the HealthManagement.org question: What are the top potential benefits of using Blockchain technology to secure healthcare records?...Read more
2016 21 Nov
Award-winning CIOs have got to be doing something right when it comes to management of their teams. Whether they take care of a small rural team of a sprawling department, the winners of Healthcare IT News 2016 Best Hospital IT Departments all have an approach that leads to happy staff and efficient operations. How do they do it? Ed Kopetsky,...Read more
2016 18 Nov
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced a pivotal agreement to jointly partner on all programs and professional communities outside of North America. Through HIMSS-CHIME International, healthcare information technology’s (HIT) two most visible and successful...Read more
2016 15 Nov
According to analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies, it is hardest to find staff with the necessary skills to fill Cloud Security roles. This is important for hiring managers to take note of as the time it takes to cloud security roles, for instance, is more than three months. This works out as 19 days longer than it takes to fill...Read more
2016 07 Nov
A new survey shows that in spite of almost guaranteed annual pay increases, health IT staff still expect higher salaries and the gender gap is still wide. The annual HealthITJob.com’s survey shows that while the mean salary is $93, 000, many healthcare IT staff want an increase. Meanwhile, the 2016 Health IT Salary Report puts the average...Read more
2016 07 Nov
A new survey shows that healthcare Chief information officers (CIOs) said they’re more likely to increase their 2017 budgets than IT professionals in other sectors. According to a new Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey , out of 190 companies that replied to the survey on HIT spending, there were the following results: 52 percent of HIT CIOs...Read more
2016 31 Oct
Healthcare tech merger and acquisition activity along with general healthcare was down in the third quarter of 2016 says Healthcare IT News. According to Healthcare M&A.com, generally, in comparison with Q2, the volume of deals dropped 11 percent to 369 transactions. In healthcare technology side, biotechnology and medical devices...Read more
2016 31 Oct
According to a report on Health Data Management the 2016 IBM X-Force Cyber Security Intelligence Index , the healthcare sector has just moved into first position in the list of industry most threatened by cyberhacking. The same report said that there had been 100 million health records compromised. Experts believe that one key...Read more
2016 18 Oct
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced its final rule codifying modifications and requirements under the ONC Health IT Certification Programme. The initiative is part of an effort to upgrade the transparency and accountability of certified HIT. It has also been devised to protect the health...Read more
2016 19 Sep
A standards body has said that in order for healthcare IT security to succeed it has to align with the overall activities of an organisation if it has any chance of being effective. The chief of the Baldrige PerformanceExcellence Program just launched under the umbrella of The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), says that...Read more
2016 12 Sep
A new interoperability benchmark and measurement model for assessment of performance and progress is set to launch at the start of 2017. The model was established at last month’s KLAS Cornerstone Summit in Utah and is a collaborative initiative devised by industry representatives based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design. ...Read more
2016 31 Aug
Researchers from Finland, U.S, France and beyond created a pilot of four clusters of indicators to compare Health IT across 38 countries.. Findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Each country has a different approach towards Health IT. However, in a paper from the Organization for Economic Cooperation...Read more