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Has Economic Stimulus Created Buyers or Merely Tire-Kickers?
November 11, 2009 7:28 PM by Bob Mitchell
I posted a blog recently about Software Advice posting a survey on its site. Here's the results of their survey about whether stimulus money for electronic health record/electronic medical record (EHR/EMR) adoption was creating any buyers or just tire-kickers. Read More...
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The Impact of Economic Stimulus on EMR Adoption
October 28, 2009 4:31 PM by Bob Mitchell
Software Advice is hosting a survey on its blog until Oct. 29 about the impact the federal economic stimulus bill has had on EMR adoption rates. The article and survey to the link are located here: http://www.softwareadvice.com/articles/medical/obamas-emr-stimulus-of-2009-creating-buyers-or-tire-kickers-1102709/ Read More...
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The Pitch: Watch My Video
October 20, 2009 8:55 AM by Bob Mitchell
There I was on a recent afternoon searching for more details on the term "meaningful use of an electronic health record," when I started poking around YouTube to see if there were any videos by David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health Read More...
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Data Disruption Hits Sidekicks
October 12, 2009 2:39 PM by Frank Irving
According to a statement posted on its company Web site on Oct. 10, T-Mobile acknowledged that users lost information stored on the Sidekick device as a result of a server failure at data services provider Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft. T-Mobile's Read More...
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Mourning Paper
October 5, 2009 1:09 PM by Mark McGraw
Being 36 years old and a journalist, I have to acknowledge a soft spot for newspapers. I remember a time when the local weekly was really the only game in town when it came to delivering news, sports scores, political commentary and the ruminations of Read More...
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Common Ground
September 16, 2009 12:40 PM by Mark McGraw
The ruckus surrounding health care reform has been well-documented, here and elsewhere. If you're looking for careful, considered discourse on the U.S. health care system and how to fix it, the seemingly endless stream of "town hall-style" forums and Read More...
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Sorting Out Social Networking
July 21, 2009 8:26 AM by Mark McGraw
This is probably an unfair generalization. But for some of us over 30, it's been tempting to dismiss online social networking as the domain of teens and Millennials who hardly remember a time when they couldn't instantly share their every opinion, mood Read More...
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Diagnosis: Difficult?
June 24, 2009 12:29 PM by Mark McGraw
Most Seinfeld fans certainly remember "The Package" episode, involving a subplot in which Elaine Benes is unable to find a doctor willing to treat her troublesome rash. Branded a "difficult" patient by her primary care physician, Benes scours New York Read More...
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IT Project Contest Deadline Extended
May 15, 2009 6:44 PM by Frank Irving
Due to demand from contest entrants, the application deadline for ADVANCE' s IT Project of the Year Award has been extended from May 15 to May 20. Please click here for full details on how to enter. The winning facility will be featured on the cover of Read More...
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IT's Role During Tough Economic Times
May 14, 2009 9:43 AM by Bob Mitchell
A recent survey by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based ProTech highlights some interesting insight onto what IT professionals are doing in these tough economic times. Eighty-nine percent of respondents surveyed said IT is playing a significant role in enhancing Read More...
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Computer Science Majors on the Rise
April 17, 2009 10:31 AM by Bob Mitchell
Okay, let me say this as quietly as possible...IT'S OKAY ONCE AGAIN TO MAJOR IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING! Quiet enough? According to a recent post on the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Web site, CRA's Taulbee Survey of PhD-granting computer science Read More...
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Dateline: Chicago -- HIMSS Day 1
April 6, 2009 9:53 AM by Bob Mitchell
This is Bob Mitchell, managing editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Executives reporting from the HIMSS conference in Chicago. It's cold, cloudy and it snowed a few inches Sunday evening. Here are some highlights from the first day of the conference: Read More...
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Cloudbusting
March 10, 2009 8:46 AM by Bob Mitchell
With your head in the cloud as you hear Kate Bush's ethereal voice singing Cloudbusting, her shrill voice is trailing off..."The sun's coming out..." We were sitting in an editorial planning meeting awhile back and the topic of cloud computing came up. Read More...
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Focusing on Data Center Efficiencies
February 20, 2009 10:11 AM by Bob Mitchell
The next time you're stoking the fire in the furnace of your data center you might want to think about how efficient the data center's operations really are. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently Read More...
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Post-Obama Campaigning
November 10, 2008 11:33 AM by Jim Boyle
I've held off commenting on the 2008 election since our own Frank Irving has done an outstanding job covering it. Now that it's over, however, I wanted to take a moment to remark on how historic President-elect Barack Obama's victory is, beyond the obvious Read More...
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