Worth a Read: Articles of Interest to the Healthcare IT Field

Back to School
By: Mark Hagland
HealthCare Informatics, May, 2009

Some CIO’s, recognizing the need for their IS team to have advanced degrees, are supporting a variety of educational methods to gain optimal team functioning.

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The Great Aggregation
By: Daphne Lawrence
HealthCare Informatics, May, 2009

As hospitals move go to pay for performance and are expected to meet federal standards, information is the life-blood of survival for healthcare.  There is an absolute need to bring disparate application information to the fingertips of the users and decision makers.

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Stimulating Times
By: David Raths
HealthCare Informatics, May, 2009

Ever since President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act into law in February CIO’s are trying to unravel the terms – especially “meaningful use”.  Clues point to e-prescribing, CPOE, quality reporting, and clinical decision support as projects that will be supported in the stimulus package.

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Innovation and IT Leadership
By: Tim Tolan
HealthCare Informatics, April, 2009

The areas of service, quality, leadership and communication are places where top CIO’s can make an impact as an innovator.

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