In a presentation at Medical Record Institute's Health IT Trends & Marketing conference last week, Lionel Carrasco, CTO for Neoris, an IT consulting company, detailed the correlation between grasping asset usage and big hospital operational benefits, incl

The Medical Records Institute (MRI) has made available what it calls the Health IT IQ (HITIQ) Test, a free exam designed to measure vendors' knowledge about the complex world of EHRs and health information technology.

Early adopters of computerized physician order entry software have demonstrated that implementation is no easy task, but healthcare providers are benefiting from their lessons learned.

Two groups, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), have joined forces on a common public policy agenda regarding the advancement of health IT.

A number of electronic data sharing systems from different industries were looked at as potential models for health IT initiatives during the 2005 Frontiers of Health Care Conference panel discussion.

Healthcare providers have begun to develop and implement clinical information networks designed to support electronic health records (EHRs) for every patient within the next decade.

The call came out again from President Bush for physicians and hospitals to boost efficiency by jumping on the electronic medical record bandwagon.

As wireless hardware, software, Wi-Fi standards and security protocols improve, the question is not when to deploy wireless, but rather how to do it best.