Meaningful use criteria are indeed shaping the industry and modernizing how health data is used, but the criteria isn’t a paint-by-numbers instruction manual. IT departments…
Archive | March, 2014
The State of Nursing Informatics
Just as general technology has changed over the past decade, so too has the field of nursing informatics. In February, HIMSS released its most recent…
Quantifying Happiness: Tracking Well-Being in the Age of Quantified Self
In 2012, the United Nations declared March 20 as the International Day of Happiness. Angela Dunn takes a look at how we track happiness and well-being…
The Standardization of Data and the Personal Health Record
Health data standards are part of almost every discipline and industry. Within healthcare, there are standards from laboratory and radiology procedures to network protocols. With…
Big Things in Patient Engagement: Context and Transparency
It was apparent that health IT is really moving toward accountable, value-based care, which ultimately has its success rooted in better decisions by patients, physicians…
Progress in the Health Attention War: Childhood Obesity
Last Spring, after attending an Institute of Medicine meeting on Childhood Obesity, I wrote about fronts and Heroes in the Health Attention War. Arguing that…
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…
