Healthcare Technology News

Advancing Performance in Healthcare

March 11,2012

12:25

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer for the U.S.

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

March 5,2012

8:00

Standards for Distributed Population Health Queries

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

February 25,2012

11:17

Meaningful Use Stage 2

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

February 15,2012

8:30

Query Health: Distributed Population Queries

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

January 10,2012

14:13

Medical Errors Due to Indecipherable Prescriptions

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

December 14,2011

14:18

The December HIT Standards Committee Meeting

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A new article is posted at Healthcare Technology News.

Healthcare IT, also known by the acronym HIT, is all about using information technology solutions such as hardware, networking, and software to help improve healthcare, save lives, reduce costs, and improve profit margins for healthcare organizations. Healthcare IT has always been important but recently it has been receiving more attention because the government and consumers (patients)

are demanding better service from care providers and healthcare IT is a good way to improve service.The healthcare system, especially in the USA, has some critical problems such as nurse and physician shortages, spiraling costs, poor consumer (patient) service, and lower revenues which lead to mergers

or acquisitions. Healthcare IT is in even worse shape because outdated infrastructure, legacy architectures, and monolithic applications prevent positive change from occurring. Healthcare IT can, if used properly, help reduce costs, improve care provider productivity (which can then alleviate some of the shortages), and significantly improve customer service to patients.