I’ve been working at Corepoint Health for five years so I have an academic and professional understanding of electronic healthcare messages and the HITECH requirements…
Archive | November, 2010
Preparing for RSNA
The RSNA 96th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting is set to begin this weekend in Chicago with a great deal of energy and anticipation. The…
Images Play a Vital Role in Creating a Complete Patient Record
To the dismay of the radiology community, medical imaging was not included as a key component in the initial draft of the CMS Meaningful Use…
Health Care Social Media – My Confession
I am not the first, and probably will not be the last one. I had my doubts about certain aspects of health care social media….
Converting from an HL7 Version 2 Message to CDA
One of the most common ways to integrate the HL7 CDA Standard into existing solutions is to create a CDA document from an HL7 Version…
Cloud Computing: A Developer Perspective
Cloud computing is a hot topic. You may have recently noticed a few commercials on prime time TV advertising cloud computing technologies now available to…
Streamlining a Radiology Practice: Balancing Brand & Efficiency
Positioning a radiology practice can be quite a challenge. Almost all practices offer a quality of diagnostic technology that is more or less standard across…
Simply Workflow
In health IT today, there are many new applications being implemented. Getting the implementations right relies on getting the workflows right first. Workflows need to…
A New Cure: Where Medications Fall Short
As a first year medical student, I feel as if my peers and I will be among the first to define a new generation in…
A Message to our Readers: HL7 Standards Website Update
“Wise and prudent men – intelligent conservatives – have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them…