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Healthcare IT News reported on December 08, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

“The Science of Personalized Medicine: Translating the Promise into Practice” notes that personalized medicine, which targets individualized treatment and care based on personal and genetic variation, is creating a booming market, but is a disruptive innovation that will create both opportunities and challenges for traditional healthcare and emerging market participants”.

Health Care IT NewsSeptember 08, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

CHICAGO – The Certification Commission for healthcare information technology has announced that it will launch new certification programs on Oct. 7. Click here

by Healthcare IT News August 21, 2009

University of California at Merced’s Valley Telehealth Partnership is too new to have made an impact on the physician and nurse shortages in the San Joaquin Valley. click here for full story California telemedicine program aims to alleviate nurse shortage

CCHIT to release new programs in 90 days More than 225 volunteers with the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology are updating and broadening certification programs for electronic health record technologies.

July 02, 2009 | Molly Merrill, Associate Editor Healthcare IT News

WHITE PLAINS, NY – A class action lawsuit claims the stimulus act jeopardizes the privacy rights of the 65 percent of Americans who aren’t on Medicaid or Medicare by requiring healthcare providers to create an electronic health record of every person in the United States. The lawsuit seeks an injunction to protect personal health information and to prevent the defendants from disbursing the $22 billion budgeted for the electronic health records systems.

Lead plaintiff Beatrice M. Heghmann, a healthcare professional who has never been covered by Medicare and Medicaid, says because Title XIII of the stimulus act aims to have everyone’s medical histories in the system by 2014, their personal health information would be a “mouse click away from being accessible to an intruder.” click here

As the President of Sentry Data Systems I am focused on creating products with Hard Dollar return which require no Consulting to implement.

Matching actual procurement activity to billing activity is critical for establishing visibility into the financial operations of any hospital.   The new module available in Sentinel RCM Claims Guardian(TM) leverages our core business intelligence platform that enables end-to-end data capture which is essential to managing the revenue cycle and illuminate important components of claims activity.   Providing our hospitals key contract performance indicators will provide an invaluable tool to serve as a basis for renegotiation of payor contracts.

Sentry’s products are designed to put hospital management in control of their environment by giving them the tools they need to act immediately.

Management’s time is valuable, and I believe that automation is the answer.

Obama: IT is still a critical part of healthcare reform June 04, 2009 | Bernie Monegain, Editor

In a letter sent Tuesday to Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to promoting the use of information technology as a means of reducing healthcare costs.  Obama said the White House is also determined to go after “the key drivers of skyrocketing healthcare costs, including unmanaged chronic diseases, duplicated tests and unnecessary hospital readmissions.”  click here for full article

As I lead Sentry through this new ERA of Healthcare Technology requirements, speed, efficiency, robust feature functionality and constant evolution of the solutions through innovation are essential.  Please see the case study article featured on IBM’s website 

What’s a Shared nothing database??? That’s the first question I asked myself when I heard about it.

My CIO came into my office one day and said,”in order to meet your product expectations we need to build a massively scalable distributed database with a shared-nothing architecture”.  

I said to myself, Ha! Tech-guys, he’s looking for money for his department again… You know, everything with them needs to sound so dramatic!  It turns out, it was the most insightful look into the future I’ve ever seen.

Check this link out if you want to learn more about what I am talking about.

http://www.sentryds.com/Products/Datanex/Components/QDC/