Tag archive for ‘information technology’
Expo Session on IT comes on heels of naming of new National Health Information Technology Coordinator
Read this article from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News to learn about the appointment of David Blumenthal as the new national health coordinator for health information technology who will oversee the use of $20 billion of the stimulus package for use of IT in healthcare.
Information Technology holds promise for Advancing Healthcare
There will be $19 billion of the Obama Healthcare Stimulus Package used for the improvement of information technology. This will help to reduce the amount of medical errors, unnecessary tests and procedures and misplaced lab results. Doctors will be able to cut back on record keeping staff and do away with thousands of paper files. Learn more from [...]
Point of Care Data Collection: Information at Your Fingertips
In a McKnight’s guest column Larry Triplett promotes the use of information technology in long-term care. While another McKnight’s article shows that nursing homes lead the health care field in use of electronic health records, overall there is still reluctance to use and rely on digital information as it does not seem as personal and [...]
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