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Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) interoperability efforts continue but the interagency program needs to implement improvements, according to a January report by the General Accountability Office (GAO).
Aggressive interoperability timelines require specific implementation guides and reference implementations, wrote John D. Halamka, MD, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in his blog, on which he summarized the comments he received from colleagues concerning the interim final rule and notice of proposed rule-making for the proposed meaningful use definitions.
eRAD has released version 6.2 of its RIS/PACS, which includes a Web-based workflow consolidation and interoperability platform, uniRAD.
MEDecision, a provider of collaborative healthcare management solutions, has signed a letter of intent to acquire health information exchange (HIE) provider HxTechnologies for an undisclosed amount.
MidSouth eHealth Alliance will transition from Vanderbilt Medical Center’s technology platform to Informatics Corporation of America’s (ICA) commercial version of the solution to support the ongoing exchange of patient data throughout Shelby County and two adjoining counties in west Tennessee.
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., introduced legislation Tuesday outlining the federal government's role in the national adoption of EHR systems and the development of a national health information network.
Written by A Staff Report
IT innovation and integration are alive and very well in 2008. This year’s Top 25 Connected Healthcare Facilities bring impressive resumes, tales of major cost savings and return on investment and excellence in patient care and patient and staff satisfaction.
ORLANDO–Many different information exchange patterns exist between hospitals, patients, physicians, labs, imaging and more, and according to a HIMSS 2008 e-session “Service Oriented Architecture in Healthcare,” a service-oriented architecture (SOA) information fabric can help create interoperable information exchange networks with HL7.
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ATLANTA--At HIMSS10 this week, Philips unveiled IntelliSphere, a new identity for its portfolio of healthcare informatics products.
Medicaid programs in South Carolina, Alaska, Kentucky and Wisconsin will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the EHR incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported Thursday.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
 RIS/PACS solutions have alleviated the concerns of misplacing patient records and lags in turnaround times for radiology departments and imaging centers, allowing for the rapid retrieval of patient images and reports from remote locations.
CHICAGO—Most operational health information exchanges (HIEs), although created independently of one another, demonstrate a number of similar structures and goals, according to responses received by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) HIE Common Practices Survey.
CHICAGO—A collection to imaging informatics tools developed under the umbrella of the National Cancer Institutes caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) are demonstrating the potential for collecting, analyzing, integrating, and disseminating information associated with cancer research and care, according to a scientific presentation at the 94th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Twelve countries in Europe are participating in a large scale project, supported by the European Commission, to exchange healthcare data to ensure the interoperability of national e-health systems across the European Union.
Written by Lisa Fratt
This month, we’re looking at how a pair of cutting-edge practices has assembled the various IT components to create an integrated infrastructure that support workflow and high-quality patient care.
Decision-support tools, interoperable systems, and hands-on training to increase operational efficiencies were highlights of the 2008 Society of Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) conference in Seattle, according to David L. Weiss, MD, a presenter at this year’s meeting.
Use of the EHR is absolutely inevitable, said Daivd Brailer, PhD, MD, national coordinator for health information technology.
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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.