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  • The Results are In

    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.
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIT (Weblog) on February 8, 2010

  • Has Economic Stimulus Created Buyers or Merely Tire-Kickers?

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIT (Weblog) on November 11, 2009

  • The Impact of Economic Stimulus on EMR Adoption

    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 ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIT (Weblog) on October 28, 2009

  • Accelerating Health Care IT Adoption

    The views and opinions expressed in this blog are mine personally, and are not necessarily representative of Texas Health Resources (THR) or its subsidiaries. To Teach, To Heal, To Discover -- Six words that captured the essence of the mission of the academic medical health system where I served as CIO. Along with our affiliate Case, we ...
    Posted to CIO Unplugged (Weblog) on May 5, 2009

  • E-prescribers Pass 100,000 Milestone

    Surecripts, operator of the nation's largest electronic prescribing network, reported on April 22 that more than 100,000 prescribers are now routing prescriptions electronically in the United States. Surescripts made the announcement in conjunction with the release of the company's ''National Progress Report on E-prescribing.'' The report, based ...
    Posted to The Politics of Health Care (Weblog) on April 24, 2009

  • Focusing on Data Center Efficiencies

    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 implemented a national data center energy efficiency information program. The program ...
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIT (Weblog) on February 20, 2009

  • Is Documentation Consuming Nursing?

    According to Spyglass Consulting Group research, nurses are spending upwards of 50 percent of their time documenting patient care. Quoted in an article in the upcoming July print edition of ADVANCE, Spyglass' Managing Director Gregg Malkary said the amount of time nurses spend documenting patient care has increased 250 percent since 2004.  
    Posted to ADVANCE Perspective: HIT (Weblog) on June 27, 2008