Biographical Information
David Raths
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David Raths is a Philadelphia-based freelance writer. e-mail draths@mac.com
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Some larger law firms have hired chief knowledge officers and provided them with staff and funding that is separate from IT groups...
Automation eases grant tracking and submissions to institutional review boards.
Driven by regulatory compliance, "track and trace" solutions offer greater visibility into the complex distribution network...
The federal financial incentives being offered to organizations that are "meaningful users" of electronic health records EHRs require an increasingly sophisticated level of data gathering and reporting...
Records management officials in federal agencies fight an ongoing battle for IT resources and money to hire staff and contractors to identify and schedule records disposition and training. Until recently, it was unclear how much progress agencies were making toward meeting their statutory requirements to manage the records necessary to meet their business needs, ensure government accountability and preserve historically valuable records for future generations...
As more academic medical centers develop sophisticated EHRs and data warehouses, they are seeing the potential to mine those records for possible trial participants...
The Obama administration's huge funding effort to create a nationwide network of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) has been called the biggest thing that's ever happened in health information technology...
Many state governments have 40 different learning management systems in place, with individual maintenance contracts on each, and they're not able to share content...
Anyone who has spent time in a hospital emergency department (ED) or even watched television shows about them realizes that they present a daunting knowledge management challenge...
Like most healthcare facilities, Washington Hospital Center in the nation's capital used to struggle with asset management: finding the right pieces of equipment when employees needed them. But two and a half years ago, WHC, one of the 25 largest hospitals in the country, sought to address that knowledge management problem by attaching radio frequency identification (RFID) system tags to equipment in order to track them online.
Will making data more readily accessible lead to efficiency gains and clinical improvements?
In the pharmaceutical industry, an electronic lab notebook can be more than a receptacle for documents; it can be a platform for knowledge management and collaboration.