EMR Implementation from a Nursing Perspective- ONC: Health IT Fact Sheet
- Survey: Community Hospitals Push Ahead with IT Despite Tight Budgets
- Community Hospitals Adopting IT Faster Than Ever
- ONC Summit: Consumers Want Providers to Speed EHR Deployment
- IT Industry Study: 50% of Physicians Use Medical Apps
- Survey Examines Roles of Chief Nursing Officers in IT Decisions
- Data Shows Uninsured Patients Have Shorter Hospital Stays
- Medicaid Meaningful Use Go-Lives Hit 39 States
- Survey: Healthcare is Second-most Important Issue After Job Creation
- Six Golden Rules of EMR Implementation
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
EMR Implementation Creates Opportunities for Nurses
By Megan M. Krischke, NurseZone.com With the push to obtain the full incentive payout for meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMR)/electronic health records (EHR) created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, many hospitals are in the … Continue reading
Improving the Physician–Nurse Dynamic
By Jennifer Larson, contributor August 26, 2011 - Can doctors and nurses learn to get along well enough to collaborate? Can they truly be partners in providing excellent patient care? Many health care experts now say “Yes.” But that hasn’t always … Continue reading
Posted in Nurse Management, Nursing, Physicians
Tagged Health, Health care, Medicine, Nurse, Nursing, Nursing theory, Physician, United States
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The Health IT Standards Committee Endorses EHR Vocabulary
By Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT The Health IT Standards Committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards and a single guide for putting them in place for each area of quality reporting measures, an accomplishment that some individuals … Continue reading
HIE’s Save Payers Big Bucks
By Ken Terry, Fierce Health IT News A study of emergency-department visits conducted by Humana in the Milwaukee area shows that payers can save money if EDs have access to community health information exchanges (HIEs). When ED clinicians queried patients‘ … Continue reading
Three Obstacles to Higher Education Levels in Nursing
By Rebecca Hendren, HealthLeaders Media Three Obstacles: Supply & Demand Majority of RN‘s lack four- year degree Rank-and-file Nursing lags Evidence shows that patient outcomes improve when nurses have baccalaureate degrees. The Future of Nursing, the influential IOM and Robert … Continue reading
ANA Recognizes Emergency Nursing as Specialty
Nurse.com News The American Nurses Association has announced its formal recognition of emergency nursing as a specialty practice. The ANA defines emergency nursing as “the care of individuals across the lifespan with perceived or actual physical or emotional alterations of … Continue reading
Report: Three-Quarters of US Jobless Can’t Afford Health Care
August 24, 2011 HealthDay News Affordable Care Act will give newly unemployed more choices for coverage in 2014, authors contend. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) — Nearly three-quarters of jobless Americans say they can’t afford needed health care or prescription … Continue reading
HHS Allot $137 Million for Public Health Surveillance & Health IT
By Bernie Monegaine, HealthcareITNews.com WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday awarded $137 million to nearly every state to strengthen prevention efforts and to improve public health. Many of the awards include a health IT component, … Continue reading
Posted in Health Information Technology (IT), HHS, Medical Prevention, Public Health
Tagged Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Education, Health, HIT, Kathleen Sebelius, Public health, Public Health and Safety, United States, United States Department of Health and Human Services
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HHS Rural Health IT Task Force Focus Health IT for Rural Hospitals
By Bernie Monegain, HealthcareITNews.com WASHINGTON – The Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture have signed a memorandum of understanding linking rural hospitals and clinicians to capital loan programs to help them purchase software and hardware needed to implement … Continue reading
Posted in Health Information Technology (IT), HHS, Rural Health, Rural Health IT Grants, Rural Health IT Network Program
Tagged CAH, Community Facilities Program, Health information technology, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rural area, Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Health and Human Services, USDA Rural Development
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