Brother Mobile Solutions, a provider of mobile and desktop printing solutions, announces it will join forces with Datalogic, a leader in automatic data capture and industrial automation, at HIMSS’16 to present innovations in patient wristband/specimen identification designed to minimize human error and help increase safety and accuracy at the bedside point-of-care. The two companies will […]
In a previous set of interviews with Jim O’Brien, MD, MSc, Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety, Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital and Stephen Claypool, MD, Medical Director, POC Advisor, Wolters Kluwer, we learned about the ravages of sepsis and how POC Advisor’s electronic surveillance and alerts assist in sepsis detection. To continue our “Countdown to […]
If John McDaniel appears tired, please forgive him. He’s also behind on returning his e-mails (and don’t even mention the projects piling up at home). John’s life is emblematic of the stretched-thin state many health IT executives find themselves in today – and there doesn’t appear to be any let-up for these busy folks anytime soon. John is Vice President of the HCI Group (HIMSS’16 booth #6832), a global leader in strategic advisory services and EMR implementation, training and support, and he and HCI are riding a wave of worldwide health IT innovation and expansion that has yet to crest.
Billing, even more so than other areas of healthcare, has experienced a steady stream of seismic changes over the past two decades. Payors, providers, patients and regulators have been forced to adapt, again and again, to tremendous alterations to their expectations, participation and operating processes relative to medical billing. As part of our “Countdown to […]
The one word that most in healthcare would never associate with HIMSS: small. The conference’s immense scope of educational sessions and solution demonstrations can be staggering especially for those in attendance representing independent or solo practices. That being said, it would be a tremendous error to assume that smaller healthcare organizations do not have as […]
Interoperability is HOT. ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap is ambitious. Organizations like CommonWell Health Alliance and the Center for Medical Interoperability, an offshoot of the San Diego-based West Health/Gary and Mary West Health Foundation are doing great niche work through facilitating industry collaboration to advance common methodologies and standards. And the most recent addition, an industry interoperability survey […]
