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IBM has closed a deal that will expand its existing portfolio by acquiring Initiate Systems, a software company focused on developing data management technologies.
IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
MR angiography (MRA), with the addition of a specially designed computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme, has proven to have greater accuracy than MRA alone, and may have the ability to improve the sensitivity of intracranial aneurysm detection on MR images, according to the findings of a collaborative project of Mayo Clinic and IBM.
Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.
InSite One has certified IBM as a distribution partner, allowing commercial installations of IBM storage technology to become part of its medical archiving and data recovery services.
The Agence de la Sante et des Services Sociaux de Montreal has signed a five-year, $3.6 million ($3.3 million, U.S.) deal with Artefact Informatique, the health division of IBM's LGS Group, to build a registry for digital medical images based on the Canada-wide cross-enterprise document sharing standard.
TeraMedica Healthcare Technology is partnering with Logicalis to provide image management solutions to healthcare providers that are making the move to EHRs.
Many hospitals are considering new vendor-neutral solutions for archiving and accessing medical images to avoid being locked into closed, proprietary software, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
IBM has teamed with University of North Carolina Health Care (UNCHC) to develop new treatments for diseases, such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer, using IBM software and hardware to support the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health.
IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM, is adding a $2 billion financing component to help providers finance health IT initiatives tied to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Despite the presence of heavy hitters such as IBM, 3M and Dell, no single company owns the EMR market, according to a report from Kalorama Information.
Written by Justine Cadet
When the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) hosts its annual conference from March 1-4, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, it is sure to be abuzz with conversations about the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment, the HITECH Act, and the subsequent meaningful use proposals and definitions.
IBM is extending its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, to four EHR providers--Siemens Healthcare, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Healthcare Management Systems and SCC Soft Computer--through new financing agreements.
IBM has earned a CAD $22.5 million (U.S. $21.3 million) project with the Government of Manitoba to create an EHR system using dbMotion.
IBM has launched a Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision making and optimal quality of care.
Chief information officers (CIOs) spend more than half their time on activities designed to spur innovation within their organizations, according to a report conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky via an Epic Systems' EMR roll out using IBM technologies.
The Sisters of Mercy Health System has chosen IBM to standardize its service support processes in preparation for a seven-state EHR deployment.
IBM has released InfoSphere Streams, a computing system that analyzes massive volumes of information-in-motion from a multitude of real-time sources.
RIS Concepts has released multiple voice recognition system support for its RCI-RIS, a Web-based, multi-facility RIS, and RAD-RIS for the needs of radiology groups reading studies for multiple facilities.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.