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The annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Conference & Exhibition in Atlanta March 1-4 attracted more health IT professionals, more vendors and more Interoperability Showcase activities than last year, according to HIMSS' preliminary figures.
ATLANTA–At the HIMSS10 conference this week, McKesson displayed a variety of EHR software ranging from systems for large hospitals and networks to products for small physician practices.
The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have requested a combined $2.8 billion for health IT projects in the 2011 federal budget. The Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for $1.5 billion while the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is asking for $1.3 billion.
Siemens Healthcare announced yesterday that Henri "Rik" Primo, director of marketing and strategic relationships, image and knowledge management, has been re-elected as chair of the medical imaging informatics section of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA).
Vangent is releasing an open-source software tool, known as Health Information Exchange Open Source, for the secure exchange of health information from multiple and disparate system and data sources.
The Social Security Administration is looking to award $24 million in funding to health information exchanges, regional health information organizations, general medical service providers and specialty care providers to help automate the exchange of medical records.
A recently-published report on EHR and health information exchange initiatives suggests that the United States should look at similar efforts in Europe as a guide for its development of large-scale e-health systems.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W. Va., introduced legislation last week that will facilitate the nationwide adoption of EHRs, particularly among small, rural providers.
Wellogic and its partners Apollo Health Street and Initiate Systems will provide software as a service (SaaS)-based clinical solutions and services to the Southern Arizona Health Information Exchange (SAHIE)'s 40-plus member organizations.
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ATLANTA—InterSystems participated in a demonstration that simulated state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) for the duration of the HIMSS10 conference this week.
It is impossible to imagine a high-performing U.S. health system that does not take full advantage of the computing technology that has transformed virtually every other aspect of human endeavor, wrote National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal, MD, in a commentary published Feb. 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Misys successfully tested two open-source components needed to run a health information exchange (HIE) at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North America Connectathon in Chicago.
Written by Jeff Byers
The federal government’s current shift to sharing health information using open-source technology could potentially reduce costs and time for patients and the government, according to a panel discussion of health IT experts who gathered Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are asking for industry help through an official Request for Information in determining the current status of the U.S. health IT infrastructure, and the steps needed to be taken to further develop that infrastructure.
Open-source programmers will be getting together on Aug. 27 for the first CONNECT Code-A-Thon at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., with the goal of developing software that can eventually be used for a Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics held a meeting last week in Washington, D.C., to discuss recent progress toward establishing a nationwide health information network (NHIN).
The Federal Health Architecture, an E-Gov initiative led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is making free software available as a first step to help public and private health information technology systems communicate to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
With e-health initiatives across the United States in various stages of development, states now have an opportunity to determine the best regulatory and governance framework to support and advance electronic healthcare IT and health information exchange (HIE), according to a report prepared for the State Alliance for e-Health by the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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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.