Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc
Director Clinical Informatics Research & Development,

Chairman, Center for Information Technology Leadership,
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

HIStalk Reception 2009 – Jonathan Bush – athenahealth, Inc.

athenahealth CEO, Jonathan Bush discusses with EHRtv™, the future of athenahealth and the health information technology (HIT) industry. Topics covered include the Stimulus package, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the affect of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act funding to the electronic medical record (EMR) industry.

HIMSS09 -  Sheryl Miller, Sales and Business Development of PracticeOne, discusses the advantages of its EHR, e-Medsys.  e-Medsys is an extremely flexible product, allowing physicians to use a product that is customizable to their office workflow.  In addition, Miller elaborates on the product’s CCHIT 2008 Certification, as well as the company’s position on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

CHT Press is proud to announce the release of its latest book, “Paper Kills: Transforming Health and Healthcare with Information Technology.”"Paper Kills” addresses the most pressing issues in the drive to modernize and improve healthcare through health information technology.

Dr. Robert Kolodner, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, offers insight into the difference that health IT has made in the quality of care to our nation’s veterans.

When health care providers transition to a paperless recods system, a greater burden of continuity is placed upon the network infrastructure. Peter Panfil, vice president and GM for Liebert AC Power Business, discusses BayCare Health System’s partnership with Emerson Network Power to develop a reliable data center to support an electronic records system using a variey of solutions that ensure mission-critical continuity