In The News 02/19/2010...

NURSING AND COMPUTERS: THE INEVITABLE MOVE TOWARDS ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR) Nursing and computers have not always been a perfect mix. Typically, nurses try to get away from new computer systems as much as possible. However, it is an inevitable workflow evolution in today’s...

ONCHIT Releases its Pre...

With a December 31st deadline to provide an initial set of standards, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) and The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced regualtions tonight that define "meaningful use" of...

In The News 07/08/2008...

Best Careers for 2008 32% of RNs Say They Shouldn’t Be Driving After Work   Thought everyone might be interested in this article from the Congressional Budget Office on the Evidence on the costs and benefits of health information technology. It might help with those...

In the News 05/27/2008...

A blogger Alfred Fortin came up with 101 things to do with a mobile phone in healthcare.  AHRQ is currently seeking for clinicians to provide them input via a web based focus group, to understand how to get a broader perspective on adoption of Healthcare IT tools. Video tool...

In the News 05/23/2008...

I will be trying this new column, I am calling "In the News."  My plan is to of course include Healthcare IT (HIT) related stories, but to also have a column to collate news I find interesting.  Hopefully I can enage you, my readers to comment on them and utilize these...

Google’s Response to ...

I have posted about Google’s Healthcare Advisory board and the lack of Nursing representation. This was not very well accepted by a good number of nursing commmunities. CARING being one of them, a big push to educate google became a mission. As a member of Caring, the president...