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Medhost's Care Clock keeps tabs on ED wait times

New Products | Wednesday, July 21 2010
Medhost has launched Care Clock, software that allows hospitals to publish current emergency department (ED) wait times on their websites so patients can make more informed decisions about where to seek care for non-urgent problems.
 

HealthPartners licenses MobiSecure mobile platform

Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, July 19 2010
HealthPartners, a U.S. consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has licensed Diversinet’s MobiSecure Health platform to facilitate mobile communications with its 1.3 million subscribers.
 

CynergisTek unveils IT security for smaller health orgs

New Products | Thursday, July 01 2010
Security IT company CynergisTek has released three new offerings designed for healthcare organizations with fewer than 100 beds to provide small healthcare organizations with IT and security services, which include IT support services, email technology and a HIPAA/HITECH security compliance review.
 

California facility strikes deal with Medicity to build HIE

Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, June 29 2010
Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., has selected Medicity as its partner to build a community-wide health information exchange (HIE).
 

At Your Service: Will Service Oriented Architecture Add Interoperability to Imaging?

Cover Story | Wednesday, May 26 2010
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not a new concept, but the medical field has been slow to adopt it. This could change as more and more radiologists, administrators and IT leaders recognize its value in a field that is requiring a greater degree of interoperability.
 

Study: Positive reviews of physician-rating websites warrant deeper look

Clinical Studies | Monday, May 24 2010
Despite controversy surrounding physician-rating websites and limited use by patients, positive reviews warrant further study for utilization, according to an article published in the May 13 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine.
 

NEJM: Patient/physician dynamic changing due to internet

Industry News | Friday, March 26 2010
The internet has had profound effects on healthcare by putting access equally in the hands of patients and physicians, thereby redefining their roles, according to an opinion article published in the March 25 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
 

HIMSS: Google announces integrations, new PHR technologies

Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
 

HIMSS: Nuance rolls out mobile apps, NLP

Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
 

Security protocols, policy of personal health info remains largely unsolved

Top Stories | Tuesday, November 24 2009
The problem of developing security mechanisms needed for management protocols and policy management of personal health information (PHI) remains largely unsolved, according to Gerald Masson, PhD, director of the John Hopkins University Information Security Institute, who spoke at an assembly hearing of the Health IT Standards Committee on Nov. 19.
 

Web leaders initiate gov't open identity pilot program

Industry News | Wednesday, September 30 2009
Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems have announced they will support the first pilot programs designed to implement a federal government initiative designed to make it easier for individual to register and participate in government websites. The companies will act as digital identity providers using OpenID and Information Card technologies.
 

AHA endorses Extension smart card

Industry News | Monday, August 31 2009
The American Hospital Association (AHA), through its subsidiary AHA Solutions, has endorsed Extension’s HealthID, a secure smart card that holds individual patient data for use by hospitals.
 

Watchdog: Google lobbied on EMR stimulus provisions

Top Stories | Wednesday, May 06 2009
Google should "come clean" and release the specific positions it advocated during its lobbying campaign on the economic stimulus law, according to the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.
 

Microsoft, Mayo challenge Google HealthVault

Industry News | Wednesday, April 29 2009
Mayo Clinic and Microsoft have launched Mayo Clinic Health Manager, a privacy- and security-enhanced online application for storing personal medical information, where consumers can receive individualized health guidance and recommendations based on the clinical expertise of Mayo Clinic.
 

Google Health stumbles over insurance claims data

Top Stories | Monday, April 27 2009
Insurance data used by online personal health records such as Google's and Microsoft's are prone to inaccuracies, due to the diagnostic coding language or due to mislabeling.
 

Blumenthal: Health IT adoption will need more than incentives

Industry News | Thursday, April 09 2009
Although the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides an unprecedented $19 billion program to promote the adoption and use of health IT and electronic health records, spurring adoption will probably require more than financial carrots and sticks, according to David Blumenthal, MD, recently named as national coordinator for health IT.
 

Google selects MIE’s EHR for its medical center

Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 23 2009
Google has chosen the WebChart Enterprise Health EHR solution from Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) for its onsite employee health clinics in Mountain View, Calif., and Kirkland, Wash.
 

BMJ: Google ads can have misleading medical info

Industry News | Thursday, March 19 2009
Google needs better control of its advertisements and suggested links to avoid web pages that contain conflicting medical claims, warn doctors in an article published online in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
 

Washington pilots PHR bank with Microsoft, Google

Top Stories | Wednesday, March 18 2009
The Washington State Health Care Authority has launched three consumer-managed Health Record Bank pilot projects in three regions of the state, in conjunction with Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health personal health record (PHR) systems.
 

House passes stimulus package with $100B for healthcare

Top Stories | Thursday, January 29 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to pass President Barack Obama’s stimulus package of federal tax cuts and spending worth $819 billion, with more than $100 billion earmarked for healthcare—designating an additional $87 billion to existing state Medicaid budgets and approximately $20 billion for healthcare IT.
 
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Feature: U.S. needs national strategy to curb imaging overutilization

Medical imaging overutilization--a growing concern in the U.S.--exposes patients to unnecessary radiation, while also adding to rising healthcare costs, according to a study published online Aug. 24 in Radiology. In an interview, William R. Hendee, PhD, lead author, reviewed various methods by which medical imaging could be curtailed.

Radiology: Prelim study shows CE breast CT outperforms CT, mammo

Dedicated contrast-enhanced (CE) breast CT delivered significantly improved conspicuity of malignant breast lesions, including ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), compared with unenhanced breast CT and mammography, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology.

Radiology: Rad role may evolve as image-guided biopsies trend up

CT, ultrasound and MRI have helped shift biopsy techniques away from more invasive approaches toward image-guided percutaneous techniques, according to a study published in the September issue of Radiology. The trend toward less-invasive approaches translates into enhanced safety and efficiency and could lead to more interaction between patients and radiologists.

CMS Webinar: Incentive payments to offset EHR adoption, not reimburse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.

CMS webinar: Eligible professionals can expect EHR incentives in 2011

Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.

Webinar: Stage 1 of meaningful use is for quality reporting acclimation

Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”

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