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BayCare Health System names Thompson CIO

Executive Announcements | Wednesday, August 25 2010
Tim Thompson has been appointed CIO of BayCare Health System, a community-based healthcare system in the Tampa Bay, Fla., area, effective Sept. 7. Thompson joins BayCare from the Methodist Hospital System in Houston, where he served as CIO and senior vice president.
 

Charting a Course for Interoperability: Connecting Data, Connecting Patients

Cover Story | Wednesday, August 25 2010
Written by Lisa Fratt
With the feds brandishing more than $20 billion dollars to encourage health IT adoption and usher in a new era of streamlined healthcare, interest in integration stands at an all-time high.  The ability to integrate, share and route data among disparate systems is essential. And the rationale extends beyond dollars. “This isn’t just another way to deliver information. It’s a way to stay connected to the communities where you do business, so patients can get the best possible care,” says Susan Hollabaugh, project manager, clinical information at RadNet, Inc., in Los Angeles.
 

KLAS: RIS gains ground through interoperability, functionality

Industry News | Monday, August 23 2010
While RIS purchases traditionally have taken a back seat to EMR and PACS decisions, new products entering the RIS market and vendors expanding their EMR and PACS client bases with integrated technologies suggest that RIS are taking a renewed priority in purchasing decisions and being included in discussions surrounding meaningful use’s electronic information exchange requirements, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
 

JACR: Professional guidelines not cut out for decision support

Top Stories | Tuesday, August 17 2010
Radiology professional society guidelines, in and of themselves, do not comprise effective decision support for reducing inappropriate use of medical imaging, opined Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, vice chair of radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
 

iMedX buys Louisiana transcription company

Mergers & Acquisitions | Wednesday, August 11 2010
iMedX, a healthcare software and services company, has acquired the assets of MedTech Transcriptions, a Metairie, La.-based medical transcription company serving medical clinics in Louisiana for more than 15 years, for an undisclosed sum.
 

N.Y. payor invests $1M for medical home initiative

Industry News | Tuesday, August 03 2010
CDPHP, a physician-founded health plan based in Albany, N.Y., will invest $1 million to compensate 21 primary care and pediatric practices for participating in the second phase of the healthcare plan’s patient-centered medical home initiative.
 

SRS, Ingenix align on practice management, EHR technologies

Partnerships & Alliances | Wednesday, July 28 2010
SRS and Ingenix have formed a partnership to expand clinical, financial and administrative operations options for SRS’ customers.
 

Top 25 Connected Facilities: The Refining of Radiology

Cover Story | Friday, July 23 2010
Written by Lisa Fratt
This year’s Top 25 Connected Facilities are an impressive group that has extended the reach of images from PACS to the EMR, either via links to key images or full image sets. Many extend PACS and EMR access to referring physicians and share data with a health information exchange (HIE) internally and/or externally. They are reaping across-the-board benefits—accelerating and improving patient care with anytime/anywhere access to patient data, virtual subspecialty interpretation and razor-thin report turn-around times that hover near 15 minutes for STAT studies. They are cutting costs, increasing productivity and fueling growth.
 

GE upgrades EMR, ePrescribing technology

New Products | Thursday, July 22 2010
GE Healthcare IT has updated its Centricity Enterprise EMR clinical, financial and administrative software package. The company also has integrated two-factor authentication into its Advanced ePrescribing technology for Centricity EMR.
 

AMDIS: Next generation of CMIOs need more support

Conference News | Thursday, July 15 2010
Written by Mary Stevens
OJAI, Calif.--Probably no one goes to medical school intent on becoming a CMIO, said Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, assistant clinical professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during a discussion at the AMDIS Physician-Computer Symposium earlier this week. However, the interest is there and must be cultivated to meet the growing demand for medical informatics skills, she said.
 

Cardiac Science introduces new diagnostic workstation

New Products | Tuesday, July 13 2010
Cardiac Science, a developer of automated external defibrillator and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, has expanded its ECG and cardiac stress product line with CareCenter MD, a multimodality PC-based diagnostic workstation designed for physician practices.
 

DR Systems’ eMix adds new preview feature

New Products | Thursday, July 08 2010
Medical imaging developer DR Systems has added a new capability to its cloud-based technology platform, Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), the eMix Preview.
 

TeraMedica unveils cardiology information system

Friday, July 02 2010
TeraMedica has released its new cardiology imaging and information manager, Evercore Cardiology Vendor-Neutral Architecture.
 

Poll: Less than 10% of Americans have EMRs

Industry News | Friday, June 18 2010
Less than one in 10 U.S. adults now have EMRs or use email to contact their doctors, according to a Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
 

Feature: Planning for healthcare's future with iPads

Web Exclusives | Sunday, June 13 2010
Written by Jeff Byers
Although it was just released in April, Apple's iPad has been on the minds and in the hands of numerous healthcare professionals seeking a balance between the convenience of their smartphones and the screen areas of laptops. While Apple has reportedly sold two million iPads globally as of the end of last month, early healthcare provider adopters have found the device, its uses and environment are already in flux.
 

Acuo to manage image data in Pennsylvania, Canada

Contracts & Installations | Friday, June 11 2010
Medical image management provider Acuo Technologies has inked vendor neutral archiving contracts with Western Pennsylvania Allegheny Health System of Pittsburgh and Medical Imaging Consultants of Edmonton, Alberta.
 

Etiam releases clinical capture tool

New Products | Thursday, June 10 2010
Healthcare interoperability technologies provider Etiam has introduced Clinical Capture Suite, its offering for integrating multimedia to the enterprise archive.
 

SIIM: Sorna highlights enhancements to Reviewer CD

Conference News | Tuesday, June 08 2010
MINNEAPOLIS--Sorna showcased new components to Reviewer CD software during the Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) annual meeting last week.
 

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.
 
Web Exclusives

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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