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HIMSS Rocks the Global Center for Health Innovation
The Global Center for Health Innovation opened for business last October in Cleveland, Ohio, but will officially open to the general public this October. The…
What is Health IT Literacy?
Healthcare has many components and, ultimately, the most essential elements are delivering high quality care in a timely and efficient manner. In the middle of…
Clinical Information Systems Usability Discussion Topics
As the healthcare IT community continues to move from analog to digital, it is critical for us to focus on usability. It is not merely…
New ONC Leader Karen DeSalvo Discusses Priorities, Current Health IT Landscape at HIMSS14
This year’s HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition saw Karen DeSalvo, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, take the stage and it was clear…
Social Conquest of Medicine III: 10 Recommendations
The benefits of sharing this data are just too great to be ignored on both a personal and population level, and people now approve of…
Preparing for the Next Decade of Health IT at the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) held it’s Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2014. This marked the…
Don’t Get Lost in the Crowd: Advice for Navigating HIMSS14
One of the world’s largest health IT conference kicks off at the end of this month, February 23-27, and this year promises to be every…
Giving Thanks for Health Information Technology
Finding articles about the missteps or failures of health IT is easy. The key to remember, though, is progress is happening in many places. This…
Is a ‘Tech Surge’ the Right Solution for Healthcare.gov?
The Healthcare.gov fiasco cannot get any weirder than instigating a health IT “tech surge” to resolve the challenges with the Healthcare.gov website. There are many…
