Special Reports

03/21/2012

Are Federal Training Programs Meeting the Growing Need for a New Health IT Workforce?

AudioTim Andrews of Booz Allen Hamilton, Helen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Norma Morganti of the Midwest Community College Health IT Consortium spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to bolster the health IT workforce.

02/27/2012

New California Law Seeks To Expand Telehealth Services for Medicaid Beneficiaries

AudioApril Armstrong and Thomas Nesbitt of the University of California-Davis Health System, Mario Gutierrez of the Center for Connected Health Policy, Jen Lang-Ree, a nurse practitioner in California, and Jonathan Lopez, a dermatology patient, spoke with iHealthBeat about a new state law that expands and streamlines telehealth services in the state.

02/15/2012

HIMSS12 Conference Preps Health Care Industry for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Program

AudioHealthcare Information and Management Systems Society Senior Director of Privacy and Security Lisa Gallagher, HIMSS Senior Director of Federal Affairs Tom Leary and IBM Chief Medical Scientist Martin Kohn spoke with iHealthBeat about what attendees can expect at this year's HIMSS conference in Las Vegas.

02/01/2012

Center for Democracy & Technology's McGraw Discusses Health Data Privacy Challenges

VideoDeven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, spoke with iHealthBeat about the challenges of protecting health data privacy.

01/12/2012

Stakeholders Respond to Federal Proposal To Give Patients Full Access to Their Lab Results

AudioKate Christensen of Kaiser Permanente, Jason DuBois of the American Clinical Laboratory Association, Lawrence Hughes of the American Hospital Association and Eva Powell of the National Partnership for Women & Families spoke with iHealthBeat about a new federal proposal to give patients full access to their laboratory results.

12/14/2011

States Making Progress in Tracking Diseases Electronically, but More Work Remains

AudioKathleen Gallagher of CDC, Kathryn Turner of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and Sara Cody of the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health spoke with iHealthBeat about states' progress in electronic disease tracking and the remaining obstacles.

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.

10/11/2011

Wendy Everett of NEHI Discusses How New Technologies Can Improve Care, Cut Costs

VideoWendy Everett, founding president of the New England Healthcare Institute, spoke with iHealthBeat about efforts to encourage health care providers to adopt innovative electronic health systems that could improve health care quality and reduce costs.

10/04/2011

Health 2.0 Conference Focuses on Patient-Centered Technology To Promote Wellness

AudioJonathan Attwood of Zamzee, Stephen Downs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chris Hewett of Mindbloom, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari and Christine Robins of BodyMedia spoke with iHealthBeat about new consumer-focused health innovations.

09/22/2011

Groups Tap Funding for Mobile Health Efforts Targeting Seniors With Chronic Conditions

AudioDavid Lindeman of the Center for Technology and Aging, Nancy Pratt of Sharp HealthCare, René Seidel of the SCAN Foundation and Steven Wallace of the University of California-Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research spoke with iHealthBeat about how mobile health technology could benefit seniors.

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.

08/10/2011

Millions of Dollars in Federal Broadband Funds Fail To Reach Rural Health Care Providers

AudioJonathan Linkous, CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, Mark Goldstein of the Government Accountability Office, Carol Mattey of the Federal Communications Commission and Dale Alverson, director of the University of New Mexico's Center for Telehealth and Cybermedicine, spoke with iHealthBeat about FCC's efforts to distribute federal broadband funds to underserved areas.

07/15/2011

Health Care Providers, Vendors Weigh In on Qualifying for Stage 1 of Meaningful Use

AudioJoseph Bettencourt, a family practice physician in California, Elise Singer of the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization, Girish Kumar Navani of eClinicalWorks and Eric Sorenson of ChartLogic spoke with iHealthBeat about the process for qualifying for incentive payments under Stage 1 of the meaningful use program.

06/08/2011

CMS Rule Takes Aim at Telehealth Barriers; Stakeholders Say More Still Needs To Be Done

AudioGary Capistrant of the American Telemedicine Association, Scott Cooper of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, and Scott Simmons of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine spoke with iHealthBeat about a new CMS rule that eases the process for the credentialing and privileging of telehealth practitioners.

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