Computer science in health care

It’s hard to say when the “Chief Information Officer” executives first became essential in hospital service: was it with the International Classification of Disease in 1893, or HIPAA in 1996, or the HITECH Act of 2009? In any case, computation and communication of information is at the heart of healthcare today, and CIOs have more than a handful of issues to contend with: population health, gathering real time data, integrating non-traditional data, human error in data entry, budget cuts for innovation, et al, as this piece describes.  MORE

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