The nightmare of arriving at go-live with a staff of untrained physicians is enough to make any hospital administrator shy away from EMR implementation. Bert Reese, chief information officer of Sentara Healthcare, has taken eight hospitals and almost 300 physicians…

A Health and Human Services Department panel has shown support for a plan to create a federal database of business rules that states can use in determining eligibility of consumers for Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs, according to…

Alan Portela, president of CliniComp and professor of healthcare information technology at the University of California-Irvine, shares his insights into how electronic health record implementation can make hospitals profitable.

The photographic paintingOften the value of a new technology is not understood for many years after its invention. The first film cameras were initially used to capture “photographic paintings” of landscapes, still life studies and portraits, the standard subject matter…

The American Board of Medical Specialties will create new measurement tools and incorporate them into the ABMS Maintenance of Certification to promote meaningful use of healthcare information technology, according to an ABMS news release.

Here are 10 current columns address anesthesia and anesthesia-related issues.

The Mississippi Division of Medicaid and Shared Health, one of the country's largest health information exchanges, have launched a system for electronic health records and electronic prescribing for more than 500,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in Mississippi, according to a Healthcare IT…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has set guidelines for federal funding of Medicaid healthcare information technology initiatives, according to a letter written by CMS.

Vicki Edelman, administrator of Blue Bell (Pa.) Surgery Center, shares four key steps to take to ensure an efficient ASC anesthesia group recruitment process.

CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Although the anesthesia section in the CPT manual is the smallest, it can be one of the most difficult areas to accurately…