Health Care It Scope

If properly executed, green IT can mean healthcare organizations see fewer bills, contribute lower levels of carbon emissions, and enjoy an easier transition into mandated practices. But it has to be done right. Noble and potentially...

(Editor's Note: The following is a response to a July 15, 2010 posting by Leslie Kane about the ease of demonstration of "EHR Meaningful Use -- So Easy, Even a Caveman Could Do It?". The Kane Scrutiny blog on Medscape.) As President of Geriatric...

The Obama administration used about half of a 50-page report on innovations targeted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to underscore the importance of health and medical IT to the nation’s economic future. The stimulus legislation, passed...

Health Industry Insights' Lynne Dunbrack examines the current state of electronic health record technologies used by US payers and presents key findings of two surveys regarding payer deployment of and data contribution to various forms of EHRs. “The...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has released its long awaited interim final rule for electronic prescribing of controlled substances. The new rule became effective on June 1, 2010, and could be revised later on the basis of public comment. The...

In an interim final rule released Tuesday, CMS “recognized” the use of version 10.6 of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs SCRIPT Standard for electronic prescribing under the Medicare Part D drug benefit, Health Data Management...

Fatalities caused by prescription drug abuse are quickly rising in Florida.A new report from the state's medical examiners shows deaths from the prescription painkiller oxycodone jumped 26 percent in 2009 from the previous year. Florida is a leading...

Four pharmacy organizations say they support the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to allow electronic prescribing of controlled substances but called for further clarification on the new e-prescribing rule, Modern Healthcare reports. On...

Tryton Medical Inc. announced that the company’s Tryton Side Branch Stent System has been used in three cases in Israel for the first time. Yaron Almagor, M.D., director of the Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at...

Surescripts, the Nation’s E-Prescription Network, today announced that eight vendors representing nine physician software products have completed Gold certification. The resulting Gold Solution Provider status is granted to vendors with software...

The health care industry is trying to catch up when it comes to technology. “Other businesses have been able to figure out how to make it work, such as the finance business. You can get money wherever you go. Health care is really behind,” said...

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, AMNews staff. When it comes to electronic health records, functionality has had its time in the spotlight. Now, the buzz term is usability. What's the difference? Functionality is what a system does. Usability is how easily you...

Electronic medical records are the wave of the future, and Chicago area hospitals are already on board. Hospitals with more advanced record-keeping technology have fewer complications, lower mortality rates, and lower costs, according to a study...

With a host of new incentives, doctors are finally beginning to scrap pen and paper in favor of electronic prescriptions. Medicare this month began paying doctors a bonus if they switch their patients over to e-prescribing. Some private health plans...