Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
The Virginia State Legislature this week approved a bill mandating health insurers, healthcare subscription plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to fully cover the cost of healthcare services provided through telemedicine services.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Partial adoption of meaningful use of health IT should result in the receiving of partial fiscal incentives, wrote Ted Epperly, MD, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), in a letter to Charlene M. Frizzera, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
At the recent HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, Intel announced its patient monitoring study with Mayo Clinic and introduced its Start Now initiative, a web portal that contains text and video statements by healthcare leaders about what they are doing to change the future of healthcare today.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands launched the Gemini LXL, a new PET/CT scanner, and DoseAware, a new dose-reducing solution for interventional procedures at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 this week in Vienna.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
A survey from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) found that 76 percent of respondents from mostly independent medical practices believe that the government should fully pilot test the 2013 and 2015 meaningful use criteria before requiring them.
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Rcadia Medical Imaging has been issued a CE Mark for its computer-aided detection software--the COR Analyzer system--that helps identify patients with significant coronary artery disease by an analysis of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies.
Executive Announcements | Tuesday, March 09 2010
John R. Adler, Jr., MD, professor of neurosurgery and radiation oncology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has been named vice president and chief of new clinical applications for Varian Medical Systems, effective April 5.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers that provides care to 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska, has selected GE Healthcare for its health IT system.
Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Data protection, availability and recovery solutions provider Venyu and medical data archiving and content management services provider InSite One have entered into a partnership to help manage electronic medical data within healthcare institutions.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
FHN Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support solutions, participated in the third annual Workstation Face-Off at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), held in Vienna.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Medical informatics provider TeraMedica Healthcare Technology showed three additional features for its flagship Evercore-Clinical Enterprise Suite—an updated web viewer, image management architecture and dashboard module—at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week.
Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
Clinical Studies | Monday, March 08 2010
According to a recent study published in the March 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, prostate cancer patients who visit a urologist with or without a medical oncologist consultation are treated more frequently with hormone therapy, watchful waiting or a radical prostatectomy, while those who visit a radiation oncologist appear more likely to receive radiation therapy for the treatment of their disease.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Biospace Med has entered into a distribution agreement with medical diagnostic imaging company Oldelft Benelux for the employment of its 2D/3D x-ray image technology, EOS.
Clinical Studies | Monday, March 08 2010
A study using PET imaging to compare nicotine accumulation in smokers found that nicotine washed out of the addicted smoker’s lungs and into their blood less efficiently and the study could help provide a treatment program for cigarette smokers who are trying to quit, according to a research scheduled to appear online in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of March 8.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
There is a real risk of inadvertent disclosure of personal health information (PHI) through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, although the risk is not as large as for personal financial information, according to an article published online in the March issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
Image analysis and workflow solutions provider iCAD has been granted a patent-number 7,660,448, which will cover all future iterations of its SecondLook Digital computer-aided detection (CAD).
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the company’s new mobile healthcare technologies.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Visualization technology provider Barco has inked a two-installation agreement with the Medical Centre Leeuwarden, a teaching hospital located in Leeuwarden and Harlingen, the Netherlands.
Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support technologies, released updates to its Aquarius iNtuition at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 4-8 in Vienna.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
Intermountain Healthcare will conduct the Speckle Tracking by Echo study, which will use advanced ultrasound technology to determine if asymptomatic diabetics are at risk for coronary heart disease.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
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.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Positron, a molecular imaging solutions company focused on nuclear cardiology, has sold its Attrius PET scanner to Ochsner Health System of Louisiana.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
The Ohio State Medical Association has expanded its agreement with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
Vital Images showcased its Vitrea Enterprise Suite at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta, which allows nurses and referring physicians to access imaging data from home or in their office via the web-based suite, and clinicians to use Vitrea as a planning tool when preparing for cases.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
3M Health Information Systems is looking to give "physicians back their mobility" in 2010, David Owen, product line marketing manager, told CMIO at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, where the company introduced its Mobile Dictation platform for smartphones, designed for healthcare providers.
Financial News | Friday, March 05 2010
Neoprobe has reported a net loss of $37.72 million in fiscal year 2009, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, compared with a loss of $4.63 million in 2008. However, the $295,000 loss reported in the fourth quarter of 2009 was down from the $1.16 million net loss posted in the previous-year quarter.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Biomedical equipment and software company Esaote introduced a new RIS/PACS, Estensa, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010 in Vienna, March 4-8.
Executive Announcements | Friday, March 05 2010
Walter Tarca has joined Nucletron as the vice president (VP) for the Asia Pacific, and will oversee its business in the region through an expansion of its direct presence and increased investments in training and educational programs towards the adoption of brachytherapy.
Contracts & Installations | Friday, March 05 2010
Medical software provider Medipattern has signed a 38-site agreement with Doshi Diagnostic Imaging Services of New York and Florida to install its B-CAD-For-Life package, its breast care program.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.
Industry News | Friday, March 05 2010
In February, the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging expanded the Image Gently radiation dose initiative from CT and interventional radiology to computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) exams by hosting a Digital Radiography Summit at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Partnerships & Alliances | Friday, March 05 2010
Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
Industry News | Friday, March 05 2010
PETNET Solutions, a subsidiary of Siemens Medical Solutions, is preparing to distribute NaF-18 (sodium fluoride-18) through its network of 47 PET radiopharmacies in the U.S. in support of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) memorandum to allow for coverage with evidence development of NaF-18 PET imaging.
Conference News | Friday, March 05 2010
Setred introduced its 3D visualization solution developed for the medical industry, the Setred MD20-3D display and Samurai 3D medical imaging software, at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2010, in Vienna, from March 4–8.
Industry News | Friday, March 05 2010
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) is confident about its prospects for becoming accredited after reviewing the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding certifying bodies of EHR certification, according to Alisa Ray, executive director of CCHIT.
Clinical Studies | Friday, March 05 2010
For patients with high-risk, potentially operable rectal cancer, therapy with preoperative chemotherapy prior to standard chemoradiation and surgical resection is a reasonable treatment with acceptable safety and promising long-term outcomes, based on a study published in the March issue of the Lancet Oncology.
Contracts & Installations | Friday, March 05 2010
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, has executed an agreement with Prime Care Physicians to deploy NextGen EHR and NextGen Practice Management (PM).
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Conference News | Friday, March 05 2010
Teamwork was the focus for Emdeon at the HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta last week, which featured the Harlem Globetrotters shooting baskets in the center of the booth.
Conference News | Friday, March 05 2010
ATLANTA—InterSystems participated in a demonstration that simulated state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) for the duration of the HIMSS10 conference this week.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--Verizon Wireless showcased its telehealth and mobility solutions for healthcare organizations, as well as its new IT platform, aimed at aiding EHR adoption, at HIMSS10 this week.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 04 2010
University of California, (UC) Davis Medical Center has selected medical imaging and information systems provider, Lumedx, to manage its clinical and operational data, by purchasing Lumedx Apollo structured reporting, analytics and interoperability products for its heart and vascular centers.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
Joint Commission Resources, an affiliate of the Joint Commission, has launched a new consulting service that will provide an objective evaluation of technology with a patient safety focus.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
After two neurologists accused the Christiana Care Health System (CCHS) in Newark, Del., of misusing federal and state healthcare funds, CCHS has agreed to settle the suit for $3.3 million with the U.S. government and the state of Delaware.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA–At HIMSS 2010 this week, Motorola’s enterprise mobility solutions division introduced its DS6878-HC cordless 2D imager, designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use in healthcare environments.
New Products | Thursday, March 04 2010
Toshiba America Medical Systems has released a new cardiac CT software package for its Aquilion One and Aquilion Premium CT systems.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--The benefits of virtual data in real-world healthcare were clear at the Agfa HealthCare booth at HIMSS10 this week. The company debuted to the U.S. market the Impax Data Center with Xero Technology, an upgrade for the Impax Data Center as well as a way to cut costs and increase PACS image availability via virtualization.
New Products | Thursday, March 04 2010
LifeImage, an Internet service provider of e-sharing for diagnostic imaging information, has released its internet-based Trauma Image Management & Exchange platform for hospitals, radiology groups and physicians.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is questioning whether the current proposed regulations in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program allot enough time for providers to achieve meaningful use before they are penallized.
Clinical Studies | Thursday, March 04 2010
MRI screening for women considered to be at high or moderate risk for breast cancer is more effective in the detection of the disease in the early stages than either half-yearly digital ultrasound and/or annual mammography, according to a recent prospective study published online Feb. 22 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Partnerships & Alliances | Thursday, March 04 2010
Olympus America has signed a licensing agreement with Omnyx--a joint venture of GE Healthcare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania--allowing Omnyx to access Olympus America patents in the field of virtual microscopy and digital pathology, to help develop solutions in the digital pathology field.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 04 2010
Information management systems provider DR Systems has added to its list of medical facilities taking part in beta trials of its Electronic Medical Information Exchange (eMix), a cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and radiology reports.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--At HIMSS10 this week, Philips unveiled IntelliSphere, a new identity for its portfolio of healthcare informatics products.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
Project ProSPECTus is attempting to develop a new technology for next-generation SPECT imaging which will shorten imaging time, lower radiation doses, improve future diagnosis of cancer and the probability of successful cancer therapy while enabling a higher throughput of patients in hospitals.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
“Ultrasound is the established modality of choice to evaluate the female pelvis, so why do patients with pelvic masses or pain get a CT scan? In my opinion, doing a CT scan first for female patients with lower abdominal pain is dangerous and wasteful, a drain of much-needed healthcare dollars,” wrote Beryl Benacerraf, MD, in an editorial published in the March issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
Kaiser Permanente has reported that every medical facility within the health system is now equipped with its HealthConnect, a private-sector EHR system.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
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.
Clinical Studies | Thursday, March 04 2010
Surgery with molecular fluorescence imaging using a dual fluorescent plus a magnetic marker decreases residual cancer, improves survival and MRI-guided clinical staging, according to two studies published in the March issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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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.
