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The American Medical Association (AMA) and Dell are collaborating for health IT adoption for such technologies as EMRs, e-prescribing and laboratory services through the AMA’s new health information solutions platform for physicians.
A February report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on health information exchanges (HIEs) cited ways that sharing electronic personal health information about a patient has had a positive effect on the quality of care providers deliver to patients.
Written by Mary Tierney
ATLANTA--GE Healthcare this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition rolled out a new clinical knowledge platform and announced the launch of its next-generation eHealth Solutions platform.
Hartford Hospital is collaborating with NextGate in a health information exchange implementation and a separate workflow integration project using NextGate's MatchMetrix indexing software to identify a patient across various encounters and locations within and beyond the Connecticut-based Hartford Healthcare system.
Written by Jeff Byers
ATLANTA--The prevalence of immediate information combined with connectivity created by technology and the clinical workforce expectation of better time management is a perfect storm for better mobile applications and delivery of medical care including telehealth, said William F. Bria, MD, CMIO for Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa, Fla., yesterday at the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.
Diagnostic imaging and health IT solutions provider Agfa Healthcare has entered into an installation agreement with the Montpellier University Hospital System in France.
The Georgia Department of Community Health has been award $13 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support the state’s effort to expand EHR use and create the infrastructure for health information exchange (HIE).
The Rhode Island Quality Institute will receive $11.28 million from two American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants for health IT.
Only a relatively small number of vendors are able to claim a proven, repeatable health information exchange (HIE) model, according to a report from KLAS, a healthcare market research firm. In total, the report highlights the commercial HIE models from 22 vendors, most of which have one, two or three validated sites.
Health IT company McKesson has unveiled Practice Partner Connect, a health information exchange (HIE) interoperability platform, as a part of version 9.3.3. of Practice Partner.
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ATLANTA–Thomson Reuters showcased an array of products focusing on the upcoming meaningful use requirements and interoperability, including its latest Pharmacy Intervention application, at HIMSS10 this week.
E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.
ATLANTA—In addition to demonstrating new InDex enterprise archive service features, InSite One also featured one of its actor/roles profiles from the 2010 North America IHE Connectathon at the Interoperability Showcase during HIMSS10 this week.
Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital, in Hastings, Neb., has joined the Nebraska Health Information Initiative, a nonprofit statewide health information exchange (HIE) designed to share clinical and administrative data among providers using Axolotl’s Elysium Exchange platform.
InSite One (Booth #7555) is highlighting its IHE standards-based vendor-neutral InDex enterprise archive service, which can share patient information in a health information exchange, at the HIMSS10 conference in early March.
MEDecision has introduced a new health information exchange service, InFrame, that allows healthcare organizations to share clinical data—including diagnostic-quality medical images —among themselves and with patients.
The nonprofit organization Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) has been awarded $43.3 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to help make EHRs more widely available in Ohio.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis have released a total of nearly $1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) awards to help healthcare providers advance the adoption and meaningful use of health IT and train workers for the healthcare jobs.
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.
Health information exchange (HIE) company Medicity has been awarded a patent for its agent-grid technology for HIEs by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The agent-grid technology is a main component for Medicity's HIE integration program Novo Grid.
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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.
When officials at Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Ark., started drawing up plans for a new facility that opened in July 2009, Cindy York, the hospital’s director of radiology, had to make some decisions.