Effective use of information technology to reduce medical errors requires identifying the cause of the medical errors and the clinical transformation—the change in how we clinically do something—that reduces the probability of the error occurring.
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The most important lesson in medical care comes from a bank robber who stole more than $2 million and spent more than half his life in jail.
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From the signing of healthcare reform legislation to the release of final rules for “meaningful use,” events in 2010 are driving toward a true transformation in the delivery of healthcare in the United States.
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Transformation of healthcare requires a complete disruption of our current system of healthcare delivery.
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The cancer road stretches far into the distance. More and more people engage in a a personal fight against the disease. Therefore, we all need to fight on with them.
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Regulation of HIT tools as medical devices is currently premature. The regulations must be constructed to advance HIT use while simultaneously protecting patients.
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The future of health IT over the next five years is in the development of these “glue” applications that allow the seamless linking of large, robust system, such as EMRs or laboratory applications, so that end users can utilize these tools in a coherent, patient-centric manner.
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Our great country is on an unsustainable healthcare cost curve that threatens our ability to bounce back from the severe economic challenges we now face.
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The strength of HIMSS is in its diversity.
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The raison d’être of health IT includes four key items: 1) enhance patient safety, 2) improve quality of care, 3) foster greater accessibility, and 4) facilitate a reduction in medical costs.
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