Profile of Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
Senior Writer, InformationWeek
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee is a former editor for InformationWeek.
Articles by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
7/20/2012
Electronic medical records, compliance, and other initiatives are driving demand for health IT pros. But according to InformationWeek's 2012 Salary Survey, their compensation still trails that of IT professionals across all industries.
6/7/2012
Look inside some of the most established HIEs and how they help U.S. health organizations share data, in the name of lower costs and better patient care.
6/6/2012
Supreme Court's upcoming decision on healthcare reform and feds'
Meaningful Use Stage 2 final rules add up to a heated summer for healthcare IT execs.
5/30/2012
HealthInfoNet, Maine's health information exchange, becomes first in the nation to support statewide sharing of X-rays, CT scans, and other medical images.
5/24/2012
Although mandated to communicate better with patients, some healthcare providers also are looking for tech tools that get info to staff faster.
5/24/2012
Although clinical decision support systems remain the rock stars in many large hospitals and group practices, let's not forget the need to analyze operational, financial, and quality control data.
5/23/2012
In two years, IBM data mining software has identified $191 million in potentially false Medicaid claims.
5/14/2012
Wearable devices equipped with sensors, Web connections, or both, help consumers and healthcare providers track health and fitness. Take a look at what's possible now.
5/14/2012
Benefits and talent management consulting firm plans to buy online health insurance exchange provider Extend Health for $435 million.
5/10/2012
Some hospitals and doctors oppose giving patients electronic data as quickly as required by proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2 regulations. Consumer groups want more speed--and the compromise likely won't please either side.
5/7/2012
EHR software vendors say doctors and hospitals need more time to qualify for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and ask the feds to tweak their reporting requirements.
5/3/2012
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health uses Microsoft's
customer relationship management platform to rapidly develop niche
health-related apps when off-the-shelf doesn't fit.
4/30/2012
Online Care 6.0 update adds conveniences for consumers and healthcare providers connecting outside the office; changes include support for smartphones and medical devices.
4/25/2012
Healthcare's move to ICD-10, an updated set of diagnosis and inpatient procedure codes, will affect everything from billing systems to medical records. After several delays, debate still rages on how to time the transition.
4/24/2012
Collaboration aims to expand telemedicine services into specialties such as pediatrics, neurology, emergency care, home health, and transitional care.
4/23/2012
Growing number of hospitals and other inpatient organizations plan to purchase computer-assisted coding tools to help with ICD-10 mandate, says new KLAS Research report.
4/23/2012
HITECH Act is prompting widespread adoption of e-health records, but there's more to "Meaningful Use" than what's in the government's programs.
4/12/2012
Given a one-year extension for ICD-10 compliance, healthcare groups must make the most of the preparation time.
4/9/2012
Department of Human and Health Services proposes extending ICD-10 compliance deadline to Oct. 1, 2014. It also proposes unique ID numbers for health plans to save provider frustration and money.
4/2/2012
Castlight Health mobile app lets consumers use their smartphones to look up cost and quality information about their healthcare providers, an especially helpful tool for patients with high-deductible plans.
3/28/2012
Got Epic Systems implementation experience or certifications? If so, you're among health IT's most sought-after professionals.
3/28/2012
Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of healthcare reform legislation could influence the direction of health IT.
3/21/2012
We haven't figured out how to teleport patients into medical offices. But telemedicine technologies link patients and clinicians in ways Ray Bradbury would admire.
3/20/2012
Personalized medicine programs can find better treatments based on patients' genetics. Why can't the same tools be used to predict--and prevent--adverse drug reactions?
3/12/2012
Grabbing federal incentive dollars and meeting pay-for-performance regs are the top issues keeping IT execs awake at night.
3/5/2012
Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposals raise the bar for online patient engagement, highlighting how important it is for healthcare providers to communicate with patients and give them access to their information.
2/21/2012
Onslaught of health IT initiatives brings a need for nursing
Informatics expertise, and a new breed of chief nursing information officers.
2/21/2012
HIMSS12 attendees were disappointed when details of Meaningful Use Stage 2 rules weren't revealed on Tuesday, and they were surprised to hear that changes will be made to Stage 1 rules.
2/20/2012
Author and consultant Ken Blanchard advises healthcare CIOs at HIMSS12 to lead their teams with a clear vision and respect for others' ideas.
2/15/2012
New survey finds that most U.S. consumers want their doctors to
use electronic health records--but believe that widespread adoption
will lead to more personal information being lost or stolen.
2/15/2012
Among the hundreds of health IT presentations, demos, and vendor offerings at HIMSS12 next week, don't miss these highlights.
2/14/2012
Participation in new accountable care organizations isn't for the faint of heart. But healthcare providers that have their IT acts together have a good head start.
2/14/2012
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reexamining timeline for conversion to ICD-10 medical codes.
2/9/2012
Leapfrog Group's 2011 list of 65 top hospitals in U.S. highlights facilities that use health IT to prevent deadly dosing mistakes.
2/6/2012
Take an early look at 14 of the most interesting health IT products and services that will be displayed at the annual HIMSS conference, happening this month in Las Vegas.
2/6/2012
Failure to meet upcoming deadlines could mean major disruptions in claims payments for healthcare organizations.
1/25/2012
iPhone app coming soon; patients also can securely access health records and email docs via mobile-friendly version of Kaiser website.
1/24/2012
Change Healthcare provides companies' employees with a Web portal, data analytics, personalized text messages, and email alerts to help them find lower-cost healthcare services and prescription drugs.
1/17/2012
Meet Rhode Island Quality Institute's CIO and see why Medicare thinks other states could learn from his big ideas.
1/11/2012
Meaningful Use programs, healthcare reform, and the public's love of mobile devices could add up to patients finally getting fully involved in their own care.
1/4/2012
2011 was a challenging year for healthcare IT professionals. Providers rolled out electronic health record systems to qualify for the government's Meaningful Use financial incentives. Meanwhile, mobile health apps took off, e-prescribing increased, health info exchanges got a start, and some organizations suffered data breaches. On the plus side, more health IT jobs became available.
12/14/2011
Since everyone is making forecasts for 2012, here's my take on how health IT will fare in the next administration.
11/30/2011
FDA clearance of GE Centricity mobile app lets radiologists use smartphones and tablets to make diagnoses from remote locations or in the field.
11/21/2011
High school students take online classes and gain experience with a variety of tech tools to prepare for a career in a booming sector.
11/16/2011
Patients can benefit by getting a variety of healthcare information electronically--as these seven options prove. The tools also help healthcare organizations comply with the HITECH Act Meaningful Use requirements.
11/15/2011
Cloud-based offerings like new ADP Advanced MD can ease healthcare providers transitioning to new electronic data format standard for claims transactions.
11/15/2011
Doctors and nurses have been swept away by smartphones and tablets, but they create one gigantic headache for IT managers. Here's some practical advice on how to cope.
11/9/2011
Kids with rare, deadly neuroblastoma cancer could be first to benefit from new clinical trial focused on finding more effective, personalized treatments.
11/8/2011
Seven states, eight e-health records vendors, and three health information exchange providers agree to support interoperability standards that also could make health data exchange easier nationally.
11/4/2011
From talking robots to mobile apps that take some pain out of ER visits, health IT innovations abounded at Partners Healthcare's Connected Health Symposium. Take a look.
11/2/2011
South East Michigan Health Information Exchange joins Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange, also helps Social Security Administration improve eligibility processes.
10/27/2011
Project seeks to identify factors contributing to health outcomes of pediatric patients with asthma, autism, and diabetes.
10/25/2011
President Obama's former national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, shares his thoughts on progress with meaningful use of electronic health records, and what's next for healthcare reform.
10/25/2011
If your healthcare organization hasn't embraced electronic prescribing, it's time to get going. Consider this cross-section of today's array of e-prescribing tools .
10/21/2011
The feds seem to have learned from the problems they created with stage 1 criteria. Now they're doing their due diligence.
10/20/2011
In developing countries, low cost wireless biometric sensors and cell phone technologies are being developed to monitor and screen patients.
10/14/2011
The feds have already paid out $653 million in incentives to clinicians who've implemented electronic health records. For some providers, the work wasn't so hard after all.
10/13/2011
Nebraska Health Information Initiative adds more than a dozen critical access hospitals while some U.S. health information exchanges struggle.
10/12/2011
Cook Children's, Microsoft, Athenahealth, and drug makers Merck and Sanofi Pasteur develop system that allows smartphones to scan vaccine label information into e-health records.
10/6/2011
It's too soon to know whether U.S. healthcare providers will jump on the IT bandwagon, but one thing's for certain: the U.K.'s health IT project was too top-heavy.
10/4/2011
Duke and Verizon will focus on scaling up promising health IT innovations and using the network to reach a mass market.
9/26/2011
Search on a health term and you often find data on the extremes, either too generic or too complex. Medify database aims to fix that.
9/23/2011
So few Americans are interested in creating a digitalized PHR that Google had to close its service. But there are ways to get the public interested.
9/16/2011
Not every clinical app is right for the cloud, but these two case studies offer some insights into what does work.
9/14/2011
Phytel's suite of care management tools uses e-medical record
data to identify gaps in patient care.
9/13/2011
The demand for health IT skills and experience is fueling career advancement and job opportunities at all levels, according to recruiters and hiring managers.
9/13/2011
Some healthcare providers are still hesitant to put patient data and clinical apps in the cloud. Here's how they cope with their angst.
9/7/2011
It shows a hospital wringing value out of an electronic record system that took years to implement. One in a series of profiles of InformationWeek 500 innovators.
9/7/2011
American Well and Numera partner to help doctors better track chronically ill patients and initiate early intervention when needed.
9/6/2011
Among dozens of vendors selling technology products and services to health information exchanges, no clear player dominates, study says.
8/30/2011
Doctors can view images for referred, potential patients, without having to trade film, disks, or order new tests.
8/4/2011
Many health information exchanges have had a hard time remaining in business, but a new report from the National eHealth Collaborative spotlights winning strategies.
8/3/2011
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act prevents some small and midsize IT services firms from pursuing new healthcare business opportunities, says a CompTIA report.
8/1/2011
The number of HIEs in the U.S. is growing, but many struggle to maintain a healthy business according to a report from eHealth Initiative.
7/25/2011
Demand and pay for health IT talent surges, according to online career site Dice.com.
7/21/2011
Health IT tools can help patients take responsibility for their health, but technologists need to meet them halfway with imaginative, easy to use programs.
7/19/2011
Private investors provided $61 million to Essence Group Holdings Corp. to expand its Lumeris cloud-based technology products and services for accountable care organizations.
7/18/2011
Employer consortium Dossia takes cues from social networking and games as it vies to boost usage of its personal health record site.
7/15/2011
Health IT experts at this week's InformationWeek Healthcare IT Forum tried to figure out the best data sharing strategies as Meaningful Use requirements evolve.
7/15/2011
The next stages of the HITECH Act's Meaningful Use regs are coming, as are painful transformative challenges for healthcare providers.
6/29/2011
Microsoft and Google are working behind the scenes to let users of the soon-to-be-retired Google Health site transfer electronic personal health records to Microsoft HealthVault.
6/29/2011
What doomed Google's online personal health record system? For starters, consumers haven't bought into the basic idea.
6/23/2011
A proliferation of health IT training courses means anyone from a hospital chief medical officer to a solo practitioner's nurse now has more ways to learn the basics.
6/21/2011
ACPE certificate program aids physician leaders in understanding the lingo, technology, processes and challenges involved with implementing e-health records and other health IT.
6/20/2011
Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor on a project to use predictive modeling to weed out fake Medicare claims before they're paid.
6/15/2011
Quest, and its IT subsidiary MedPlus, are the first vendors to officially participate in a HHS effort to support e-health record adoption rates among healthcare providers in underserved, minority communities.
6/8/2011
The startups, which have promising mobile or web-based health apps, will receive grants, office space, and mentoring from business and health industry professionals.
6/7/2011
App developers and mobile device makers better pay close attention because the FDA says it's looking for "greater regulatory clarity."
6/2/2011
Health technology use appears to be the secret sauce that brings medical systems to the top of the pack in a Thomson Reuters study.
5/31/2011
Individuals would know who accessed their e-health information as well as details about the data disclosed.
5/25/2011
Growing demand and a new appreciation for HIT professionals means these experts are no longer the "computer geeks" no one wants to hang out with.
5/23/2011
Giving clinicians the ability to electronically request prior authorizations for certain medications will simplify a time-consuming, sometimes frustrating process.
5/18/2011
The consortium of large employers is looking to make it easier for employees to use its online health records.
5/18/2011
The new programs may eventually warn patients with chronic disorders of an impending emergency, or let them upload data directly to a personal health record.
5/16/2011
The e-health records system will be used to help provide care at eight outpatient clinics run by the city's department of public health and several correctional facilities.
5/12/2011
As pay-for-performance programs take center stage, you'll need expert data-gathering skills to get fully reimbursed.
5/11/2011
Health IT spending plans in U.S., U.K., and Canada are being pumped up by government programs, reports Ovum.
5/9/2011
Interactive Healthline BodyMaps tools introduced by Healthline and GE let users navigate 3-D images of human body, and eventually view how diseases progress.
5/5/2011
If accountable care organizations are being set up to improve healthcare and lower costs, rules that put severe restraints on telemedicine reimbursement seem counterintuitive.
5/3/2011
Digitized patient record and medical imaging systems consume more electricity, but reduce paper use, patient travel, reliance on plastics used in traditional X-ray films and other waste, said a Kaiser Permanente report.
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