HIMSS12 Online Daily
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Performance measures crucial to health improvement, says Corrigan

"We have a good shot at really moving at an exponential pace over the next five to 10 years, to really get to where we want to go," said Janet Corrigan, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, speaking to a packed house in the auditorium-sized Venetian Showroom on Tuesday morning.

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2012 HIMSS Leadership Survey: IT staffing shortage key barrier to meeting IT priorities

Lack of staffing resources was cited as the most significant barrier to implementing IT, according to the 2012 HIMSS Leadership Survey, which was released Tuesday morning at HIMSS12.

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Re-imagining healthcare

Fred Rachman, MD, CEO of the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services, prompted the group of physicians and technologists in the room to start thinking about what a successful healthcare system might look like.

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MHS glimpses HIT future

In a session so crowded that conference officials closed the doors and effectively locked attendees out, Military Health System acting CIO Karen Guice, MD, offered a glimpse of the future of MHS health IT.

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