There I was, sitting in my comfortable chair reading my newspaper on Sunday morning. I flipped through Parade magazine, a supplement to my Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. A headline on Page 8 caught my attention: ''Electronic Health Records Face Critics.'' The article noted a new Harvard Medical School study that suggests electronic health records ...

With the annual HIMSS conference just days away, here is some of what I will be covering while in Atlanta: Opening keynote address on Monday morning by Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel. Check the ADVANCE Perspective's blog for my commentary on the keynote address and other activities including a report from Sunday's CHIME CIO Forum. On Monday ...

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. A few weeks ago, under authority of the Health & Human Services Secretary, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator of ...

As promised, the results are in and health care has spoken. Health care really doesn't want the Apple iPad, which was released recently, but it likes tablet PC devices.Medical Software Advice polled those in health care on whether or not this new device will be the first device to break into the health care industry. Here are the results.

I was reading a business writer's column in the local newspaper the other day. He wrote about how very few horrendously horrible corporate CEOs are ever shown the door, even though they may have walked away with the entire store. Not many of them get the well-deserved boot. The columnist quoted a chief reputation strategist. I had to dig a bit ...

With Apple releasing the iPad yesterday, many are now wondering if this will be a device that will make a mark in health care. Although Apple had kept the device from prying eyes, analysts had predicted that it would be a device for watching videos, surfing the Web, playing games and read e-books. But that means Apple must show consumers why ...

Association voices concerns about hospitals' ability to access HIT financing. Guest commentary from Rick Pollack, executive vice president, American Hospital Association America's hospitals have serious concerns that the new health information technology rules severely limit hospitals' ability to access federal financing for health information ...

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. Last week, one of our hospitals went live on CPOE. My boss and I were there as part of the ribbon-cutting ceremony and to commend IT and the hospital for their hard work. When we met in ...

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. Software Advice said that Oct. 30 marked the close of the first reporting period for ...

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/Software Advice gives advice ...