National Quality Forum Endorses National Consensus Standards for Health Information Technology

electronic work station for health related information has changed and will change the medical industry.  I, as a researcher and medical director of US Hair Restoration a Los Angeles hair transplant center have enjoyed my electronic monitoring of my new clinic in Encino that covers the other two clinics at Beverly Hills and Orange County.  We do purely cosmetic surgeries such as hair transplants...

Standards will turn certain elements of health IT, particularaly transaction processing, into commodity businesses New opportuities will open for companies in the analytical, disease managment, and underwriting health insurance nationwide.   Physicians still have to be convinced of the value of Health IT, since they provide the data 

Health IT has been touted as a necessary component of transformational change for the healthcare industry for quite some time.  But until this past week, no highly respected  body had laid down the standards which health IT must achieve to fulfill its promise.  The National Quality Forum, considered the gold standard for the creation of consensus driven standards setting for the...