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10/09 2000 ASP and You Shall Receive - Healthcare Informatics
Application service providers offer many options, but first an organization must assess its needs.
09/20 2000 Customer First Healthcare, Part 2 - by Bill Bysinger, for HealthLeaders.com
The vision for healthcare should start with the needs of the patient and be driven to a “Customer First Healthcare” model, with the ability to fulfill the desires of both customers of healthcare – the patients and the providers – being critical to the success of a new HIPAA-driven e-Health paradigm.
09/20 2000 Customer First Healthcare, Part 1 - by Bill Bysinger, for HealthLeaders.com
A great deal has been said about the lack of customer service in healthcare, but the problem goes much deeper and is being exacerbated by the move to Internet and eCommerce. Perhaps, the best way to overcome this problem is to look at what has worked in another industry.
08/29 2000 E-procurement – The Problem: Squeezing $11 billion out of the supply chain - HealthLeaders
Today’s procurement process in healthcare is expensive and ineffectual from a data gathering and analysis standpoint. Hospitals and suppliers want to be able to track their costs and orders, yet that information is often delayed by months and inaccurate in today’s environment.
08/22 2000 E-procurement: Initial steps for e-commerce in healthcare - HealthLeaders
Everybody is talking about e-commerce in healthcare, but a chaotic market and incompatible information systems are shackling providers to their old ways. Web-enabling the healthcare supply chain will move incrementally as a handful of hospitals this year test e-procurement in small bites.
08/11 2000 eHealth security: A symphony not a tune up - HealthLeaders
Internet security continues to be the one unanswered concern in healthcare. It is absolutely critical due to the nature of the information that is accessed and transmitted....
07/10 2000 Harvard Medical School ventures into online world - San Jose Mercury News
After keeping a cautious distance from Web-based ventures for
years, Harvard Medical School is negotiating with an undisclosed company to offer its 180 continuing education courses for doctors online within a year.
07/05 2000 Customized e-health portals: The definitive online destination for health plan members - HealthLeaders
Inspired by the promise of the Internet, a growing number of health plans have sought online solutions to deliver more relevant and meaningful information for members, lower administrative costs, better brand equity, and customer retention.
07/05 2000 Internet health care sites cast their lures for physicians - American Medical News
Watching as the Internet spawns thousands of health care sites seemingly overnight, most in the industry can only sigh. There's been too much money chasing too few good ideas. 
06/30 2000

Elements of a Comprehensive Security Solution - Health Management Technology
A close look at threatened breaches and vulnerable points of attack.

06/30 2000 For Health Care CIOs, a Brave New World - Health Data Management
Breaking new ground, CIOs are finding ways to ensure that working with new and untested 'dot.com' companies will pay off.
06/28 2000 Health firms trail e-technology curve - the Tennessean
...literally hundreds of businesses have sprouted up to save health care from its much-lamented technological ineptitude, progress continues to move at a snail's pace.
06/15 2000 Claims Processing Speeds Up - Healthcare Informatics
Moving healthcare transactions online can improve efficiencies but barriers include technology--and a culture change
06/07 2000 Online Therapy Isn't Shrinking - Wired News
The idea of online therapy has lots of folks in the industry wondering whether it's any better than Lucy Van Pelt hanging up a sign reading, "Psychiatric Help 5 cents."... 5/30
05/30 2000 Enticing physicians to use the Internet - Internet Health Care
Hospitals and clinics are devising a variety of clever strategies to persuade physicians to put the World Wide Web to use. May/June, 2000
05/30 2000 Putting patients at the center - Internet Health Care
Online medical records may help consumers take more control of their health. But it’s way too early in the game to determine how big a role Internet-based records will play.  May/June, 2000
05/08 2000 In Web We Trust? - Healthcare Informatics
Is the Web secure enough for sensitive healthcare communications? Experts agree on one thing: It depends on users and how aware they are of security tools and their limitations.
04/14 2000 Regulating the Internet: A Looming Possibility - Internet Health Care
The government ponders its role in keeping tabs on Internet health care, while the industry scrambles to police itself.
04/12 2000 Internet dominates providers' line of sight - Modern Healthcare
Staggering out of the fog created by Y2K, leaders of healthcare organizations are trying to get their bearings and take their information systems strategy in a definite direction.
04/04 2000 Can the Web SAVE Disease Management? - Healthcare Informatics
A much maligned movement finds new respect in the e-health age - Healthcare Informatics 3/00
04/04 2000 INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES - Providers Show Some Backbone - Health Data Management
While the Internet is still a risky proposition, some telemedicine providers are using it as their network backbone. Will others follow? 3/00
04/04 2000 ITAA eHealth
The Information Technology Association is taking an active lead in encouraging the increased use of Information Technology in the Healthcare industry.
04/04 2000 Nine Hot Technology Trends - Healthcare Informatics
The healthcare information technology industry continues to sparkle with many technological innovations and advancements that keep it in pace with the myriad changes in healthcare and business. 2/00
03/30 2000 Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet - Principles Governing AMA Web Sites - JAMA
American Medical Association (AMA) has developed principles to guide development and posting of Web site content, govern acquisition and posting of online advertising and sponsorship, ensure site visitors' and patients' rights to privacy and confidentiality, and provide effective and secure means of e-commerce.
03/08 2000 The Information Technology Healthcare Challenge - Information Impacts Magazine
The healthcare industry is the largest single industry in the United States. But it spends only 2-3 percent of its total revenue on IT. What are the barriers? What are the potential benefits? 11/99
02/23 2000 Significant Technological Barriers Remain for Providing Health Care on the Internet - The National Acadamies
While tens of thousands of health-related Web sites can be found on the Internet, tapping its full potential for health services and the biomedical sciences will require more advanced technical capabilities...
02/18 2000 The Draft Code of Ethics  - e-Health Ethics Initiative Draft Code
Internet Healthcare Coalition
02/06 2000 eHealth Ethics Summit Reaches Consensus, Drafts International Code of Ethics - Internet Healthcare Coalition
The Internet Healthcare Coalition announced today that consensus has been reached in drafting an International Code of Ethics for Internet healthcare.
12/00 1999 When the ship.com comes in - Telemedicine Today
A funny thing happened at the turn of the millennium. Telemedicine exploded.
10/20 2000 Legal Issues Concerning Electronic Health Information - Privacy, Quality, and Liability - JAMA
Protecting health information privacy directly improves the quality and reliability of health data, which diminishes tort-based liabilities.
10/12 1999 Intel, Health Care Leaders Explore "Internet Gap" Between Doctors and Patients
Forty-Eight Percent of Online Users Want to Exchange E-Mail with Their Doctors, But Only Three Percent Are Doing So, According to Latest Research
05/00 1999 The Brave New World of Healthcare E-Commerce - eHealth Law Advisory Bulletin
Healthcare e-commerce is becoming one of the most lively sectors of the developing Internet economy, as a series of Internet-based healthcare businesses have recently gone public or received financing.
10/14 1998 An Evidence-Based Approach to Interactive Health Communications: A Challenge to Medicine in the Information Age - SciPICH
1998 Promoting the Benefits of the Web - The Internet Healthcare Coalition
Education as to the benefits of the Internet for patients, health care professionals, and the public.

 

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