A recent report from technology consultants CSC finds that U.S. healthcare organzations lag behind their UK and Scandinavian counterparts when it comes to social media adoption.
The report determined that healthcare is less proactive in adopting social media than other industries worldwide. In the U.S., providers are more likely to utilize social media for marketing than for patient interactions,
By Lawrence G | April 17, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
In order to garner better insight into this issue, a recent article published by Fierce Health IT features testimony from several CIOs to understand what these officials might have done differently in their profession if they had the opportunity.
By Lawrence G | April 17, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
TEDMED, a community of passionate, leading-edge thinkers and doers from every discipline within the fields of health and medicine (as well as from business, government, technology, academia, media, and the arts), held its annual conference in Washington, D.C. last week and asked its 1700 attendees to vote for one of fifty Great Challenges of Health and Medicine which they considered most worthy of thought and attention.
By Lawrence G | April 16, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
The crux of the 2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data indicates that enhanced measures need to be taken to optimize patient security.
By Lawrence G | April 13, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
In an effort to provide a reliable answer to this question, advisory services and market research firm IDC Health Insights recently made available a study entitled Best Practices: Establishing Sustainable Health Information Exchange.
By Lawrence G | April 10, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
According to a recent study, failing to properly plan for the infrastructure and management required during a transition to new technology can greatly diminish the utility of the investment.
By Lawrence G | April 9, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
The Utah Department of Technology Services announced this week that it was investigating the security breach of a new server housing Medicaid claims records for the state’s Department of Health. “Very sophisticated” hackers, believed to be operating out of eastern Europe, accessed the server which had recently replaced an older one, and the compromised data from approximately 24,000 claims records may include patients’
By Lawrence G | April 6, 2012 | Healthcare IT, Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
Medical officials in Salt Lake City recently saw the negligence of an employee lead to a significant privacy incident.
By Lawrence G | April 6, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics discloses that Americans made less visits to the doctor last year and used prescription drugs less often, despite 34 new medicines introduced by the drug industry in 2011.
The research group’s study indicates that many Americans appear to be rationing their medical care as a result of difficulties in paying for it.
By Lawrence G | April 5, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
Considering the size of Texas, this industry has been experiencing immense growth in the 600 licensed hospitals currently operating in the state.
By Lawrence G | April 5, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
