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Archives for December, 2008

Happy New Year from HealthTechnica.com

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! [+]

Some Principles of Software Engineering and Design: Principle #1

There are some simple rules we learn as we make our way through life.  Sayings we pick up like, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", "one in the hand is worth [+]

Clinical 3-D Digital Imaging used for face transplants

10 years ago this type of technology was simply a dream in a researchers lab.  Today digital imaging has moved away from the classic film based x-ray and moved into a whole new world of [+]

Joe Biden comments on Healthcare IT

This morning I was eating breakfast with my family and we happened to have This Week with George Stephanopoulos on the TV.  He was interviewing Vice-President elect Joe Biden and I thought he mentioned spending [+]

Top 10 Priorites for Health Care CIOs in 2009

1. Manage costs Managing costs is always a huge component of the IT leaders job.  In 2009, it will be absolutely critical.  State governments across the nation have deficits.  36 states are facing huge shortfalls in [+]

Protecting Privacy and more Green

ArsTechnica (no relation) has an interesting article on protecting e-patient privacy.  It is clear that the HIPAA regulations enacted in 1996 are going to need to be updated for the health care world.  I recommend [+]

Docs to get bonus pay for e-prescriptions

The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The push for paperless prescriptions is about to get a boost: Starting in January, doctors who e-prescribe can get bonus pay from Medicare. For patients, the benefits are obvious [+]

A Little Bit Country, A Lot of Technology

From www.fortherecordmag.com By Alice Shepherd For The Record Vol. 20 No. 24 P. 14 Despite the need to serve a range of patients spread over miles, rural healthcare organizations are providing shining examples of how health information technology can [+]

Message to Hospital Leaders from MHA President Lawrence Massa

**Sent from Lawrence Massa to hospital leaders in Minnesota** Dear Hospital Leaders: Without a doubt, the historic projected budget shortfall of $ 5.2 billion that was announced yesterday will bring hardship for all Minnesotans.  [+]

2008 Best in KLAS

2008 Best in KLAS Software Awards From KLAS http://www.klasresearch.com Acute Care EMR Epic EpicCare Inpatient (Large - Over 200 Beds) Ambulatory EMR (Over 100 Physicians) Epic EpicCare Ambulatory (Over 100 Physicians) Ambulatory EMR (26-100 Physicians) Allscripts Enterprise EHR (TouchWorks) (26-100 Physicians) Ambulatory EMR [+]

Information Technology and the Effect on Health Care Quality

This is a long, but worth seeing, discussion on the effects of Information Technology on health care quality.  This discussion is brought to you by the San Diego Science and Technology Council. [+]

Can Social Networking help health care?

One of the most impressive upsurges in the culture of the world in the last 10 years has been the emergence of the Internet bound Social Network.  Everything from Facebook to Twitter has changed the [+]

New HealthTechnica Free Application

With Compliments of Dan: CAIT : Computer Automated Image Tagger Go to the downloads page! This tool is a free application to manage your clinical images.  It will be helpful for small practices performing functions like Dermatology, ER, [+]

Minnesota Community Measurements

Are you in Minnesota or a nearby state and regulated by the new Minnesota Community Measures?  If so, tell us what you think of these new quality measures. [+]

Cardiac CT Angiography. Wave of the future?

Very short 8 second video of a cardiac ct angiography. A whole article on the Cardiac CT Angiography is coming soon..... [+]

President Elect Obama adds some IT to health

Government Health has a quick article on President Elect Obama's thoughts on making the EMR universal: http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350702-1.html Talk back on this and give us some comments! [+]

Project Management Professional Quick Sheet

Here is a very handy, simple image to use when you study for your PMP test!  Compliments of Jamie. [caption id="attachment_115" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="All domains of the PMP in a simple to view layout"][/caption] [+]

The Information Technology and Performance Improvement Relationship

What is Information Technology? I will often answer that question with “we are a damned expensive performance improvement department.” That isn’t exactly true. However, what is true is that your medical center’s Information Technology [+]

Keep your high quality IT staff

One of the chief problems any IT manager has is keeping good staff. This is especially the case in health care. High quality IT staff don’t typically want to stay in health care. The slow [+]

How is your “cultural power distance”?

First, what is "cultural power distance"?  Cultural power distance is an idea that emerged during the 1950s psychological and sociological studies of the world's cultures.  This idea basically covers an individual's (or a groups) perception [+]
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