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Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA—In order to achieve true interoperability within a healthcare system, the IT leaders must consider the value of leaving physicians in the comfort zone, as well as adopting a patient-centric model, to which all data is anchored, according to a session Tuesday at HIMSS10.
Western New York Radiology Associates, an imaging practice in Buffalo, N.Y., has selected Corepoint Health’s Corepoint Integration Engine to orchestrate its internal workflow and external patient data flow.
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.
Health IT developer MaxMD and EMR software developer eCast have entered into a non-exclusive partnership to develop EMR technology.
Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 30 unveiled a revised healthcare reform proposal—H.R. 3692, the Affordable Health Care for America Act—which the Congressional Budget Office estimated carries an $894 billion price tag for the federal government.
Healthcare information systems provider DR Systems (Booth #6229) is unveiling eMix, its cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and reports, at RSNA 2009.
GE announced the formation of a new equity fund, the $250 million GE Healthymagination Fund, which will make investments in healthcare technology companies.
GE Healthcare has released a computerized decision support solution, which was co-developed with Intermountain Healthcare.
Kaiser Permanente has received 22 grants worth more than $54 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
The market for telemedicine devices and services will generate nearly $3.6 billion in annual revenue within the next five years, with mobile services companies taking a sizeable chunk of that business, according to a report from market research firm Pike & Fischer.
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Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2005 went from a Stage One hospital with only ancillaries online applications, to a Stage Four facility, complete with live nursing documentation and partial physician documentation based on the HIMSS analytics model for EMR adoption. Having recently undergone a computer provider order entry (CPOE) activation, Chris Longhurst MD, medical director of clinical informatics at LPCH, spoke about the considerations for CPOE and clinical documentation activation strategies at HIMSS10.
EHR use will always require human input to recontextualize knowledge, according to a review published December in Milbank Quarterly.
Written by Jeff Byers
Healthcare in the U.S. can only be reformed with standard computerization and systematic thinking, said George Halvorson, CEO of healthcare organization Kaiser Permanente, in a Web cast hosted by Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP last week.
Although the United States spends a vast amount of money on healthcare, its successes--including in the health IT area--pale in comparison with other countries, concluded the authors of a report based on a Commonwealth Fund survey.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected GE Healthcare to monitor H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity within the United States.
ScImage (Booth #3822), an enterprise imaging and informatics company, is releasing updates to its reporting tool suite and unveiling a toolset for EMR and PACS communication at the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.
University Children’s Eye Center has selected SRSsoft's SRS hybrid EMR for its ophthalmology practice in East Brunswick, N.J.
Centegra Health System of McHenry, Ill., has selected GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise EMR, an integrated clinical, financial and administrative healthcare IT system.
Healthcare providers realize that new technologies have to be adopted to improve their business, but the medical benefits of technology also are clearly in their sights, according to CompTIA’s “Healthcare IT Market: Insights and Opportunities” survey.
Healthcare software and services provider Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions saw revenues surge to $164.9 million in its fiscal first quarter (ending Aug. 31), up from $92.8 million reported in the same period a year ago.
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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.