iHealthBeat: Special Audio Reports

Safety-Net Health Care Facilities Cite Lack of Capital as Barrier to EHR Implementation

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Anthony Puorro and Melanie Thomas of Chicago's Roseland Hospital, Ashish Jha of the Harvard School of Public Health and John Lumpkin of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discussed digital disparities with iHealthBeat.

Advocates Raise Concerns About Security of Supposedly De-Identified Patient Health Data

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Ryan Howard of Practice Fusion, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights, Dan Rode of AHIMA and Vitaly Shmatikov of the University of Texas-Austin spoke with iHealthBeat about data mining and patient privacy concerns.

Experts Foresee Continued Growth in Demand for Health IT Professionals, Training Programs

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Harris Miller of the Career College Association, Carla Smith of HIMSS and Peter Yellowlees of the University of California-Davis spoke with iHealthBeat about the growing demand for health IT professionals.

Health 2.0 Conference Brings Industry Leaders Together To Promote Patient-Driven Health IT

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, WebMD's Wayne Gattinella, AAFP's David Kibbe and conference co-founder Indu Subaiya discussed the future of health 2.0 with iHealthBeat.

Stakeholders Discuss Emerging Field of Health 2.0, Make Predictions About Industry's Future

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Colin Evans of Dossia, Indu Subaiya, co-founder of Health 2.0, and other health 2.0 stakeholders spoke with iHealthBeat at the Health 2.0 Conference.

Health 2.0 Conference in S.F. Showcases New Social Networking Tools for Health Care

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Steven Adams of RMD Networks, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, conference co-founder Matthew Holt and David Kibbe of AAFP spoke with iHealthBeat about how health 2.0 tools could transform health care.

Advocates Question Whether Stimulus Package Will Help Safety-Net Clinics Adopt Health IT

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Kathy Lim Ko and Jane Stafford of the Community Clinics Initiative, Michael Lardiere of the National Association of Community Health Centers and Winston Wong of Kaiser Permanente discussed their concerns with iHealthBeat.

Upcoming Health IT Week Offers Opportunities To Meet With Lawmakers, Other Stakeholders

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Rep. Phil Gingrey, Gretchen Tegethoff of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and HIMSS representatives Tom Leary and Meredith Taylor spoke with iHealthBeat about National Health IT Week events.

Videoconferencing Tools Help Specialists Evaluate Stroke Patients in Remote Areas

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Nancy Edwards of Tobey Hospital, Doug Romer of Grande Ronde Hospital and Lee Schwamm of Massachusetts General Hospital spoke with iHealthBeat about how telemedicine tools can improve stroke care in rural areas.

Health Agencies Face Numerous Challenges in Using Health IT Systems To Monitor Pandemics

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Julia Gunn of the Boston Public Health Commission, Bob Hart of Veratect, Jeff Levi of Trust for America's Health and Henry Niman of Recombinomics spoke with iHealthBeat about current gaps in pandemic tracking systems.

Television-Based Health Education Tools Help Hospital Patients Learn About Their Condition

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Matt Barker and Richard Bootes of TeleHealth Services and Susie Sonnier of Clear Lake Regional Medical Center spoke with iHealthBeat about video-based technologies that allow patients to access medical information.

Hospitals, Health IT Vendors Gearing Up for Transition to ICD-10 Medical Coding System

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Holt Anderson of the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Jim Daley of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and Cindy Hughes of AAFP spoke with iHealthBeat about the new ICD-10 code sets.

Senior Citizens Begin To Embrace Online Tools To Better Manage Their Own Health Care

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Mark Beach of AARP, Elizabeth Boehm of Forrester Research and Jan Oldenburg of Kaiser Permanente spoke with iHealthBeat about seniors' use of online health tools.

Mobile Phones Could Store Electronic Health Records, Boost Personal Health Monitoring

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Monique Levy of the health care advisory firm Manhattan Research and Shankar Sastry of the University of California-Berkeley spoke with iHealthBeat about how mobile phones can help promote personal health monitoring.

More People Turning to Software Programs To Delay Cognitive Decline, Boost Brain Function

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Alvaro Fernandez of SharpBrains, Kathleen Herath of Nationwide Insurance, David Rabiner of Duke University and David Whitehouse of OptumHealth spoke with iHealthBeat about the cognitive benefits of certain software.

Some Health Care Providers Concerned About Feasibility of Timetable for 'Meaningful Use'

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Vice President of HIMSS Carla Smith, Paul Tang of the Health IT Policy Committee and Steve Waldren of the American Academy of Family Physicians spoke with iHealthBeat about proposed benchmarks for "meaningful use" of EHRs.

Electronic Communication Tools Can Boost Medical Tourism, Cross-Border Health Care

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Renee-Marie Stephano of the Medical Tourism Association, Paul Keckley of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and Arnold Milstein of the Pacific Business Group on Health spoke with iHealthBeat about IT and medical tourism.

Rise in Health Record Hacking Cases Prompts Re-Examination of Data Protection Methods

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Internet security consultant Greg Reber, Shelton Waggener of the University of California-Berkeley and Anne Wallace of the Identity Theft Assistance Center spoke with iHealthBeat about patient data breaches and securing sensitive information.

FCC Mulls Making More Radio Frequencies Available to Wireless Medical Devices

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Julius Knapp of the Federal Communications Commission, Ali Rezai of the Cleveland Clinic and Saurin Shah of Medtronic spoke with iHealthBeat about FCC's proposed rule.

Monitoring Devices for Astronauts Could Be Used in Surgical, Trauma, Battlefield Care

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Bret Nicks of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Babs Soller and Matthias Walz of the University of Massachusetts and Jeffrey Sutton of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute spoke with iHealthBeat about the tools.

VA's Open-Source Electronic Health Record System Could Be Low-Cost Option for Hospitals

Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Sigurd Ackerman of Silver Hill Hospital, Rod Piechowski of the American Hospital Association and Rick Jung of Medsphere spoke with iHealthBeat about the benefits of adopting a low-cost, open-source electronic health record system.

Concerns From Patients, Physicians Prompt Re-Evaluation of PHR Data Collection Methods

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, Paul Tang of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Steve Waldren of AAFP and Roni Zeiger of Google discussed the importance of accurate data in personal health records.

Federal Stimulus Package Hot Topic of This Month's Annual HIMSS Conference

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Steven Fox, chair of Post & Schell's IT Group, and H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of HIMSS, spoke with iHealthBeat about last week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference.

Federal Stimulus Funding, Health Reform Talk Add Buzz to Annual HIMSS Conference

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Stephen Lieber, HIMSS president and CEO; Elli Riley, senior exhibits manager for HIMSS; and Vincent Vitali, vice president and CIO of BroMenn Healthcare in Illinois; spoke with iHealthBeat about this year's conference.

Health Policy Experts Push for Network To Share Clinical Data on Medicaid, Medicare Beneficiaries

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, Lynn Etheredge director of the Rapid Learning Project, and Margaret O’Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, talked about the proposed network with iHealthBeat.

Medical Group Management Association Campaign Pushes for High-Tech Patient ID Cards

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

James Kelley of miCARD, Daryl Richard of UnitedHealthcare, Chris Seib of InstaMed and Robert Tennant of the Medical Group Management Association discuss the push for high-tech patient identification cards with iHealthBeat.

Privacy Advocates Support Language in Federal Stimulus Package, But Some Questions Remain

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum, Deven McGraw of the Health Privacy Project for the Center for Democracy and Technology, Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights and Robert Zirkelbach of AHIP discussed the provisions with iHealthBeat.

Twitter, YouTube, Other Social Media Tools Becoming Popular in Medical World

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Lee Aese of the Mayo Clinic, Russ Cucina of UC-San Francisco Medical Center, Bill Ferris of the Henry Ford Hospital and Ravi Nemana of UC-Berkeley discussed the increasing use of social media in health care with iHealthBeat.

Health IT Provisions in Economic Stimulus Package Raise Prospects for Job Creation

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Don Asmonga of the American Health Information Management Association, Dave Roberts of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse discussed the issue with iHealthBeat.

Smartphones Becoming Integral Tools for Health Care Providers, Medical Students

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Paul Auwaerter of the Johns Hopkins University Point of Care IT Center, Russ Cucina of UC-San Francisco Medical Center and Evan Schoenberg, a software developer and computer programmer, talked with iHealthBeat about new health care applications for smartphones.