The U.S. healthcare industry is facing an even more significant IT worker shortage than previously thought, and that shortage is slowing efforts to roll out electronic health systems. A new analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health ...
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
Tags: FCC, healthcare devices, applications, IT
Telemedicine uses a variety of electronic communications media,ranging from teleconferencing to image-sharing to remote patient monitoring,to provide clinical services to a patient.As the American Telemedicine Association points ...
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The need for IT staff in the nation's healthcare facilities is more critical now than two years ago,with two-thirds of healthcare operations in the U.S.reporting a shortage,according to a survey of CIOs(download PDF). The survey,conducted ...
Tags: IT staff Shortage, CHIME, EHRs, Healthcare