Tweet Alan Zloto, D.O. is the owner of a private internal medicine practice in Tampa, FL. In the following entry, he weighs in on how healthcare reform is impacting physician practices. What impact have recent healthcare reform initiatives, such as the HITECH Act, had on your organization? We’ve had to convert all files to paperless [...]
Tweet Two years ago, many of us in healthcare IT were wowed by the creativity found in Ross Martin’s three part “interoperetta.” The video summed up the complexities of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in just under four minutes through the lyrical mastermix. Check out our blog post “Singing [...]
Tweet As the healthcare industry discussions continue surrounding the definition of meaningful use for electronic health records (EHRs), others have been seeking to define meaningful use as it relates to more appealing concepts. Photo credited to Neil Versel’s blog with the original source as Pat Wise of HIMSS.
Tweet In case you have yet to see Ross Martin’s brilliantly creative YouTube video explaining “everything you need to know about the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Recovery (HITECH) Act in under four minutes” it’s a definitive must-see. Should you not learn anything new, it’s at least entertaining! Check out HITECH: An Interoperetta [...]
Tweet Anthony Guerra, Editor-in-Chief for Healthcare Informatics, provides some solid tips on working more effectively with the media. Selling is selling, and we’re all selling something. For me, I’m selling my audience, knowledge of the industry and professionalism when I try to get a healthcare CIO on the phone. I’m selling the fact that I [...]
Tweet Long-time Dodge client Dialog Medical is a provider of automated informed consent technology. Vice President, Marketing Tim Kelly weighs in on how the stimulus is impacting niche vendors: This question is being asked with increasing frequency and, on the heels of the HIMSS Conference, the answer appears to be, “The same as for EHR [...]
Tweet Last week, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA, to help America come out of the current recession. Within this act is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH Act, which will help to promote the adoption of electronic health records and improve healthcare [...]