Howard Anderson is the executive editor of Health Data Management magazine.

Getting Personal
January 29, 2010 Electronic health records, when paired with genetic information, may pave the way for a health care revolution. What is the...

Tracking Privacy and Security Changes
December 31, 2009 Requirements - and penalties - of the privacy and security rules now apply directly to business associates. These include such...

Industry Comments on HHS Breach Rule
December 31, 2009 Following the Department of Health and Human Services' issuance of an interim final rule governing notification of breaches of...

User Authentication Strategies
December 30, 2009 Some health care organizations have yet to comply with the original HIPAA privacy and security rules. With increased...

EHR Pros Share Secrets
December 30, 2009 Information technology leaders gathered last fall at Health Data Management's Health IT Stimulus Summit in Boston to exchange...

Survey Assesses Data Security Status at Health Care Organizations
December 30, 2009 A small survey of IT professionals shows that many health care organizations still have a long way to go when it comes to data...

21st Century Lab Systems
December 29, 2009 Many hospitals have had the same laboratory information system for a decade or more, and they're searching for a system that...

Survey Assesses Data Security Status
November 6, 2009 A small survey of IT professionals shows that many health care organizations still have a long way to go when it comes to data...

Caritas Christi Uses 2 Microsoft Apps
October 15, 2009 Caritas Christi Health Care, Boston, will use two technologies from Microsoft to improve access to clinical information for...

Blumenthal Stresses Need for Training
October 8, 2009 The federal government’s national coordinator for health information technology, says his office will announce...

Hospitals Need to Reach Out to Business Associates
October 7, 2009 Hospitals and other provider organizations should be working with their business associates now to prepare for compliance with...

Supporting Clinical Decisions in the Physician's Office
October 2, 2009 A majority of practices have yet to even acquire an EHR system. A variety of surveys suggests that as few as one-fifth of...

Getting Help with Coding
September 30, 2009 The shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes for claims could prove to be a powerful technology catalyst,...

Weighing EHR/PHR Links
September 23, 2009 Provider organizations have to address several critical issues when launching personal health records projects, one consultant...

Building 21st Century Data Centers
September 2, 2009 As community hospitals gear up their clinical automation efforts and reach out to help area physicians adopt electronic health...

$1.2 Billion in ARRA Grants Available
August 21, 2009 The federal government is accepting applications for $1.2 billion in grants for programs to help support the use and exchange...

Attorney: ARRA Impact on HIPAA Minimal
August 19, 2009 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act does not call for “wholesale changes” in the HIPAA rules

Building Kiosks From Scratch
July 30, 2009 When surveys of patients at Springfield (Ill.) Clinic revealed dissatisfaction with the time-consuming, inefficient check-in...

Early Pain Yields Long-term Gain
July 29, 2009 Electronic health records provide doctors with valuable decision support and help them practice far more efficiently at Hawaii...

VA Halts 45 IT Projects
July 21, 2009 The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced it is temporarily halt ing 45 information technology projects that are either...

CHIME to Certify CIOs
July 20, 2009 The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has launched a certification program for CIOs

Google to Take On Microsoft Windows
July 10, 2009 Google Inc. is introducing a new operating system based on Linux that initially will be tailored for use on low-cost,...

Curing an Integration Headache
July 8, 2009 When an integrated delivery system has disparate information systems that don't 'talk' to each other well, that can spell...

Remotely Hosted EHRs: The Pros and Cons for Clinics
July 8, 2009 Group practices ponder whether to install software locally or rely on a vendor partner as host

Using EHRs to Make a Difference
June 19, 2009 Federal spending on financial incentives to providers who use comprehensive electronic health records will prove to be a waste...

Revenue Cycle Best Practices Outlined
June 18, 2009 The Healthcare Financial Management Association will release a detailed report on best practices for implementing efficient...

Obama to Fill Cybersecurity Slot
May 29, 2009 A federal cybersecurity officer will coordinate the nation’s efforts to protect government and private computer networks

Taking the Next Step in Revenue Cycle Management
January 15, 2009 BI software enables financial managers to pinpoint cash flow hang-ups