For that reason, Health Data Management over the next month will host an electronic health records conference and unveil a vastly upgraded Web site. The development of both has been guided by the overriding principle that we have followed since inception: Give our audience the unvarnished truth about health care information technology from the people who actually are using it, and explain how and why they're using it.
On Sept. 17-18, we are hosting the Clinical Automation Summit: Strategies for Electronic Health Records. The conference is designed to give the straight dope on EHRs and the challenges faced by providers who want to achieve the maximum benefits from automation. The stories that will be told at the conference include those of CIOs, group practice administrators, I.T. managers, and physicians and nurses with hands-on experience purchasing, installing and using the technology.
To register, visit www.sourcemediaconferences.com/CAS07.
On Oct. 1, we will officially launch the new healthdatamanagement.com, which will bear little resemblance to our current site. For the past six years, our Web site has been recognized by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors for having the best online news section in the industry. Now, the entire site will match the quality of our daily news section.
Information has been arranged by major organizational groups - hospitals, group practices and payers - as well as channels of interest, such as government I.T. regulations, EHRs, mobile technology or document management.
In addition, we have linked our content to the vast stores of related information-including Web Seminars, white papers, podcasts and industry events-on our own site and those of our sister publications in the Business Technology Group at SourceMedia.
Tied together, BTG can provide breaking news, educational resources and multimedia information on data management and analytics, insurance networking and software, and financial compliance and regulatory issues, among other topics. By providing a stream of information from all our information sources, we deliver breadth and depth that no other publication in the health care I.T. space can match.
Our conference and Web site, like our print edition, are now and forever will be works in progress. We are committed to constantly tweaking the content we provide, and how we provide it, to best serve your needs and those of the health care I.T. community. To that end, your feedback is always welcome and appreciated.