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08/09/2012

Surveys Recognize Hospitals' IT Adoption, but Concerns About a Digital Divide Continue

AudioJohn Hoyt of HIMSS Analytics, John Mattison of Kaiser Permanente, Matthew Weinstock of Hospitals & Health Networks and Chantal Worzala of the American Hospital Association spoke with iHealthBeat about hospitals' adoption of health IT and the growing concerns of a digital divide.

11/16/2011

Health IT Stakeholders React to Clinical Informatics Becoming Certified Subspecialty

AudioEdward Shortliffe of the American Medical Informatics Association, Joyce Sensmeier of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and William Hersh of Oregon Health & Science University's School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about clinical informatics being formally recognized as a medical subspecialty.

10/21/2011

Private Sector Steps Up Training Efforts To Boost U.S. Health Care IT Workforce

AudioHelen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Bill Rudman of the American Health Information Management Association and Alice Hill of Dice.com spoke with iHealthBeat about private-sector efforts to help support and boost the country's health IT workforce.

09/08/2011

Molly Coye of UCLA Discusses Innovative Ways To Improve the Value of Health Care Services

VideoMolly Coye, chief innovation officer of the University of California-Los Angeles, spoke with iHealthBeat about how UCLA and other health care systems are taking steps to increase the value of the health care services they deliver.

12/08/2010

Earl Ferguson of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network on Using Technology To Improve Care

VideoEarl Ferguson, director of the Southern Sierra Telehealth Network, spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can help people in rural areas obtain access to primary care providers and specialists.

11/17/2010

Experts Weigh In on Why Few Patients Use Hospital and Physician Rating Websites

AudioTara Lagu of Tufts University, Elizabeth McGlynn of RAND Health and Karsten Vagner of ZocDoc.com spoke with iHealthBeat about why few consumers are using hospital and physician rating websites.

10/12/2010

Kaiser Permanente Center Experiments With Incorporating Technology Into Hospital Design

AudioDuring the recent Health 2.0 conference, Jennifer Lieberman and Sean Chai of Kaiser Permanente's Garfield Center spoke with iHealthBeat about how changes in technology have led to new ideas about hospital design.

01/15/2010

Experts Question Whether Hospitals Are Ready To Meet New 'Meaningful Use' Requirements

AudioMichael Davis of HIMSS Analytics, Erica Drazen of Computer Sciences Corp. and Paul Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation spoke with iHealthBeat about hospital preparedness for the new "meaningful use" rules.

12/04/2009

Recent Study Leads Experts To Reconsider Cost Savings of Implementing Hospital EHR Systems

AudioDavid Himmelstein of Harvard Medical School, Rod Piechowski of AHA, Marc Probst of Intermountain Healthcare and Derek Kelly of Swedish Covenant Hospital spoke with iHealthBeat about the implications of the new study.

08/17/2009

Television-Based Health Education Tools Help Hospital Patients Learn About Their Condition

AudioMatt Barker and Richard Bootes of TeleHealth Services and Susie Sonnier of Clear Lake Regional Medical Center spoke with iHealthBeat about video-based technologies that allow patients to access medical information.

02/27/2009

Twitter, YouTube, Other Social Media Tools Becoming Popular in Medical World

AudioLee Aese of the Mayo Clinic, Russ Cucina of UC-San Francisco Medical Center, Bill Ferris of the Henry Ford Hospital and Ravi Nemana of UC-Berkeley discussed the increasing use of social media in health care with iHealthBeat.

12/15/2008

Health Care IT Projects Trimmed But Not Scrapped in Credit Squeeze, Survey Finds

AudioJohn Glaser of Partners Healthcare, Jane Horowitz of the National Alliance for Health IT and Rod Piechowski of the American Hospital Association discussed the economy's effect on hospitals' IT projects with iHealthBeat.

12/09/2008

GE Healthcare, Hospitals Team Up on Interoperable Electronic Health Record System

AudioMichael Blum of the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center, Mark Dente of GE Healthcare and Stan Huff of Intermountain Healthcare discussed GE's new health IT initiative with iHealthBeat.

07/25/2008

Software Glitches Pose New, Potentially Dangerous Problems for Medical Devices

AudioPaul Anderson, vice president of Gramma Tech; Julian Goldman, a clinician at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Pam Lane, vice president for health informatics at the California Hospital Association, discuss a new generation of technical problems in medical devices.

06/23/2008

Efforts Aim To Increase Health Care IT, Informatics in U.S. Nurse Training Programs

AudioOfficials from the National League for Nursing, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the University of Minnesota talked with iHealthBeat about the need to re-invent curricula for the nation's nursing schools.

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