Cary F. McGovern

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010
Con­gres­sional Tes­ti­mony on Mean­ing­ful Use
The House Ways and Means Sub­com­mit­tee on Health held a Hear­ing on Efforts to Pro­mote the Adop­tion and Mean­ing­ful Use of Health Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy on July 20, 2010. Text of the tes­ti­mony pro­vided at the meet­ing is below the videos:
Tes­ti­mony By David Blu­men­thal M.D.
National Coor­di­na­tor for Health Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy
U.S. Depart­ment of […]

July 20, 2010 — John Moore
As cus­tomers we have all expe­ri­enced bad cus­tomer ser­vice at some point. The impact of this neg­a­tive expe­ri­ence can range from minor grum­bling to com­pletely walk­ing away from a given brand or prod­uct (ask me why I won’t buy another Ford).
In this poor econ­omy lead­ers often fall back […]

Forbes.com Ed Sper­ling, 07.19.10, 06:00 AM EDT by Ed Sper­ling
How the rules about elec­tronic med­ical records will change our per­cep­tions about all infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy.
After more than a year of review, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has finally released its “mean­ing­ful use” guide­lines for elec­tronic med­ical records. For the health care field this is par­tic­u­larly mean­ing­ful because it’s the […]

New Iron Moun­tain EMR Enable­ment Solu­tion com­bines doc­u­ment scan­ning, file archiv­ing, disaster-recovery ser­vices and con­sult­ing exper­tise
BOSTON, Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Iron Moun­tain Incor­po­rated (IRM 23.28, –0.23, –0.96%) , the infor­ma­tion man­age­ment com­pany, is com­bin­ing its ser­vices for doc­u­ment scan­ning, file archiv­ing, data backup and more into one solu­tion for hos­pi­tals and health­care organizations […]

The Com­mer­cial Records Man­age­ment Indus­try July 2010
• The CRM Indus­try is a world­wide phe­nom­ena that seems to defy logic. It is grow­ing in all five pri­mary ser­vice groups; (1) records man­age­ment ser­vices, (2) dig­i­tal access solu­tions, (3) shred­ding and destruc­tion ser­vices , (4) data pro­tec­tion ser­vices and (5) spe­cial project ser­vices
• The num­ber of new start-ups exceeds 100 […]