HealthcareITNews.com NewsDay http://www.healthcareitnews.com en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:55:19 EDT Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:55:19 EDT HealthcareITNews.com 1 Randolph Medical Center, a rural critical access hospital in Roanoke, Ala., has launched a project to set standards and create a model for how non-affiliated hospitals can exchange patient data. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9873&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9873&fromRSS=true Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT A computerized reminder system used in community-based primary care physicians' offices has increased colorectal cancer screening rates by an average of 9 percent, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9872&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9872&fromRSS=true Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Merge Healthcare has launched a Managed Services initiative focused on the Merge OFF Site Disaster Recovery program, which provides HIPAA-compliant back-up of radiology images and information through the company's ViewCheck software. Read about this and other business news, contracts and new products in this week's Vendor Notebook. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9870&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9870&fromRSS=true Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Some of the country's top CEOs identified the adoption of electronic health records among their top legislative priorities Thursday as they called on Congress and the president to take care of "unfinished business." http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9869&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9869&fromRSS=true Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Wolters Kluwer Health, a division of Wolters Kluwer, plans to acquire UpToDate, an evidence-based electronic clinical information resource. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9861&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9861&fromRSS=true Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality has released a report on telehealth grant projects that reveals the improvements and challenges that telehealth grantees experience. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9860&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9860&fromRSS=true Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Eleven more communities will join the 14 designated by the government as Chartered Value Exchanges - healthcare collaborations focused on improved care and transparency and helped by the use of information technology. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9859&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9859&fromRSS=true Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT The increase in popularity of home health and hospice care, fueled in part by an aging Baby Boomer population, has provided a windfall of sorts for HEALTHCAREfirst. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9856&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9856&fromRSS=true Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Officials of Ochsner Medical Center say the hospital system remained open throughout Hurricane Gustav and fared better due to lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina. Officials kept the hospital's electronic records system powered throughout Gustav's visit. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9854&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9854&fromRSS=true Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT MetroSouth Medical Center - the new name for St. Francis Hospital & Health Center, which was acquired in July by MSMC Investors - will deploy a surgical information system at its hospital in Blue Island, Ill., to boost operational turnaround. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9852&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9852&fromRSS=true Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Western North Carolina Health Information Exchange has completed phase I of its e-health initiative, with 16 participating facilities now exchanging patient data electronically. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9845&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9845&fromRSS=true Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Medway Country Manor Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation in Medway, Mass., is set to deploy voice-assisted care for the 123-bed facility. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9843&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9843&fromRSS=true Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Forty percent of healthcare information management directors expect to owe funds for Medicare overpayments under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor program, according to an independent national survey on behalf of Wolters Kluwer Health. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9842&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9842&fromRSS=true Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Healthcare providers struggling to provide up-to-date X-ray services might find a solution in the Carestream DRX-1, a cassette-sized wireless DR detector that's designed to do the work of an entire digital radiology suite. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9841&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9841&fromRSS=true Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT The National Quality Forum has endorsed nine new national voluntary consensus standards for health information technology. The standards address electronic prescribing, electronic health record interoperability, care management, quality registries and the medical home. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9840&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9840&fromRSS=true Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT Beverly Hospital's Aurora Breast MRI has installed a new dedicated breast MRI system, designed for the detection, diagnosis and management of breast disease. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9838&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9838&fromRSS=true Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Aetna has made its personal health record available to its current Medicare members who have purchased their Medicare plans individually. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9837&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9837&fromRSS=true Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Dallas-based Healthvision Solutions, Inc. has completed the acquisition of MediSoution's Healthcare Information Systems division. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9836&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9836&fromRSS=true Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT A government-sponsored town hall meeting on medical identity theft in a digital age has been slated for Oct. 15 in the nation's capital. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9835&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9835&fromRSS=true Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Walt Disney is hoping to bring some of its magic to the healthcare industry with plans to open a high-tech children's hospital in partnership with Florida Hospital. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9834&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9834&fromRSS=true Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Although the federal government is going full throttle into promoting transparency in healthcare, a new study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change questions its current usefulness. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9833&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9833&fromRSS=true Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Centers, a physician owned and operated organization, has purchased a CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System for its seven-acre campus. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9832&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9832&fromRSS=true Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society announced the 2008 recipients of the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Public Health Award of Excellence at the Centers for Disease Control Public Health Information Network Conference this week. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9831&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9831&fromRSS=true Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT VHA Inc., a nationwide alliance of hospitals, has entered into an agreement with Dallas-based research firm MD Buyline to provide VHA's 1,400 member hospitals access to expert analysts and reports on technology, pricing and performance. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9830&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9830&fromRSS=true Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT HealthBridge, a health information exchange operating in the Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky region, has launched its community e-prescribing application enabling physicians to send prescriptions electronically to area pharmacies. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9828&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9828&fromRSS=true Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Rapid City Regional Hospital has implemented 350 mobile clinical assistants throughout its facility to extend the functionality of its MEDITECH client server information system. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9827&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9827&fromRSS=true Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Carolinas HealthCare System, the largest healthcare system in the Carolinas, has implemented a virtual contact center that has helped to boost patient satisfaction throughout its system. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9825&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9825&fromRSS=true Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Shawnee Mission Medical Center will roll out bedside access to customized health information, education and interactive services to patients at its 383-bed hospital in Merriam, Kan. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9824&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9824&fromRSS=true Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Medical Records Institute has introduced a membership-based organization, called the Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare (C-PAHC) that will study and advocate the advancement of cell phone applications in the industry. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9820&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9820&fromRSS=true Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Nevada State Health Division plans to implement a community health surveillance system that covers the state's 2.5 million people. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9818&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9818&fromRSS=true Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Nueterra Healthcare, a management services company, will roll out new information systems developed by Atlanta-based McKesson in three community hospitals Nueterra is building in three states. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9817&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9817&fromRSS=true Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Through a partnership with Google Health, pharmacy technology providers, PDX, Inc., and Rx.com, will make prescription data available to Google Health users. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9814&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9814&fromRSS=true Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Puget Sound Health Alliance are set to release a second local provider report card to the public in November. The report will show results of care for patients with diabetes, heart disease, depression and asthma. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9813&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9813&fromRSS=true Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Garden City Hospital in southeast Michigan recently completed the implementation of a new picture archiving communications system, a document imaging system and a redesigned Web site. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9812&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9812&fromRSS=true Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT IBM has announced that Shared Health, one of the nation's largest public/private Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), is using IBM InfoSphere software and services to power its newly launched Clinical Xchange data exchange platform. Read about this and other business news, contracts and new products in this week's Vendor Notebook. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9810&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9810&fromRSS=true Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Three Washington communities will receive $1.7 million in grants for pilot projects that will test consumer managed health records. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9808&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9808&fromRSS=true Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT State Medicaid programs are poised to spend as much as $380 billion on information technology in the coming year, according to a new report from business consulting firm INPUT. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9807&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9807&fromRSS=true Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Seventeen nonprofits across California will receive $7.7 million in grants from the Blue Shield of California Foundation. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9806&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9806&fromRSS=true Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Sharp HealthCare will put IT to work on tracking and preventing healthcare-associated infections at five of its hospitals. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9805&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9805&fromRSS=true Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Hospitals will be able to identify the most important strengths and weaknesses in their disaster response plans by using a new tool from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9804&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9804&fromRSS=true Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Nearly 90 percent of Wisconsin hospitals have implemented several key technologies, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Hospital Association. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9803&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9803&fromRSS=true Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation plans to install an electronic medical records system linking all its detention facilities. The new Web-based system will interface with the agency's existing administrative systems. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9802&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9802&fromRSS=true Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT A new online social networking community for Canadian physicians was previewed at the Canadian Medical Associations' 141 Annual General Council this week. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9800&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9800&fromRSS=true Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT With a grant from the Federal Communications Commission, the Colorado Hospital Association will develop a telehealth network throughout the state of Colorado. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9799&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9799&fromRSS=true Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Three small hospitals in northern Iowa have installed an integrated electronic health record system, the first of its kind in a U.S. rural healthcare setting, according to health system officials. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9798&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9798&fromRSS=true Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The nation's largest provider of inpatient rehabilitation services has signed a deal with Wayport, Inc. to improve wireless communications at 94 rehab hospitals around the country. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9797&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9797&fromRSS=true Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Medical Group Management Association, which represents 21,500 members, says the government's proposed Oct 1, 2011 deadline for the healthcare industry to convert from ICD-9 code sets to ICD-10 is too short. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9796&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9796&fromRSS=true Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Every healthcare facility in West Virginia's network of acute, long-term and ambulatory treatment centers now has an open source electronic health records system. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9795&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9795&fromRSS=true Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Noteworthy Medical Systems, the Cleveland-based developer of a three-screen ambulatory electronic health record, will acquire strategic partner ChartConnect, Inc. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9794&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9794&fromRSS=true Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Electronic health records and staffing shortages are on the minds of hospital executives, physicians and nurses, according to a recent poll conducted by healthcare technology company Picis. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9793&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9793&fromRSS=true Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Military Health System was expected to make an announcement Aug. 1 on what it planned to do about its electronic health record system, but thus far no decision has been made known. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9792&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9792&fromRSS=true Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Montefiore Medical Center, which serves 400,000 individuals in the Bronx, N.Y., aims to boost support for patients with chronic diseases with home-based telehealth services. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9791&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9791&fromRSS=true Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is developing a new accreditation program for health information exchanges. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9790&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9790&fromRSS=true Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates, a physician-owned anesthesiologist group with 45 board-certified physicians, has gone live with a centrally hosted practice management and billing platform in an effort to improve its operational and financial results. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9789&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9789&fromRSS=true Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT In an effort to help members better manage their acute and chronic diseases, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield will use a care management system from The TriZetto Group. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9788&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9788&fromRSS=true Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT In a move that heralds sweeping change in how medical bills are coded, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a proposed regulation to change the ICD-9 code sets with ICD-10 code sets, effective Oct. 1, 2011. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9787&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9787&fromRSS=true Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT As part of a multi-year contract with San Ramon, Ca.-based Keane, Inc., The Johns Hopkins Hospital plans to implement a full admission, discharge and transfer solution and make upgrades to its back-end revenue cycle management. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9786&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9786&fromRSS=true Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the largest county medical society in Ohio, will use an online physician rating system to allow patients to access a healthcare network of information and providers who can be rated based on the patient's experience. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9784&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9784&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Cleveland Clinic is poised to open two new facilities, a $634 million project, with state-of-the art information technology. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9783&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9783&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, announced Friday the completion of its merger with MEDecision, a Wayne, pa.-based provider of healthcare management services. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9782&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9782&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Picis has signed agreements with six American and Canadian health systems to replace their existing operating room and anesthesia information systems with Picis systems. Read about this and other business news, contracts and new products in this week's Vendor Notebook. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9781&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9781&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT As information is digitized in healthcare, there's greater risk in the transmission and storage of confidential medical and financial information. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9780&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9780&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT An electronic exchange specializing in healthcare and a provider of payment processing solutions and services say they are teaming up in efforts to speed the invoice-to-payment process for hospitals. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9779&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9779&fromRSS=true Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Thursday that all physician groups participating in the Physician Group Practice Demonstration have earned $16.7 million in incentive payments for improving the quality of care delivered to chronic disease patients. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9778&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9778&fromRSS=true Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT A Manhattan Research study finds physicians are set to shift their professional research to online resources. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9777&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9777&fromRSS=true Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Clinix Medical Information Services has acquired MedicWare, a provider of electronic health record software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9776&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9776&fromRSS=true Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Hospital patients looking for an easier way to plan out their payments - and hospitals looking for a better way to collect them - might benefit from a recently announced partnership between two providers of electronic payment solutions. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9775&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9775&fromRSS=true Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT URAC has approved revisions to nine of its healthcare management accreditation programs. The new requirements emphasize greater efficiency in the healthcare system, such as support for interoperable health information technology. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9774&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9774&fromRSS=true Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Clinical laboratories will increasingly turn to lab automation systems as they deal with a growing demand for diagnostic tests, reductions in reimbursement rates and a diminishing labor pool. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9772&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9772&fromRSS=true Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Tuesday that he would like to see chartered value exchanges (CVEs) increase from 14 nationwide to 25 by January. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9771&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9771&fromRSS=true Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT PatientKeeper, Inc., a developer of physician information systems, has closed a $7.5 million round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9770&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9770&fromRSS=true Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Virginia Hospital Center hopes to automate many of its clinical processes with the deployment of Soarian, a hospital information system from Siemens Medical Solutions. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9769&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9769&fromRSS=true Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Canada's electronic health record projects increased by 12 percent last year and have quadrupled since 2004, according to Richard Alvarez, president and CEO of Canada Health Infoway. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9767&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9767&fromRSS=true Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Joseph H. Kanter Family Foundation and the eHealth Initiative Foundation have launched a pilot project for a distributed research network that leverages electronic health records to support the clinical effectiveness of treatments for certain conditions and diseases. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9766&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9766&fromRSS=true Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The United Regional Health Care System, a 565-bed acute care facility, has launched the first phase of its electronic care documentation initiative. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9765&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9765&fromRSS=true Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Picis, Inc., a provider of IT software and services for the acute care areas of a hospital, has announced the signing of six contracts with healthcare providers who are replacing legacy operating room systems with Picis products. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9764&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9764&fromRSS=true Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning a conference to educate physicians and other stakeholders about a new federal program of incentive payments to encourage the use of electronic prescribing. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9763&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9763&fromRSS=true Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT In an effort to drive improved outcomes across its enterprise, Yale-New Have Hospital has implemented a clinical information system from Eclipsys. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9762&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9762&fromRSS=true Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is launching pilot programs in Arizona and Utah to provide online personal health records to its beneficiaries. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9761&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9761&fromRSS=true Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, has received funding from the Microsoft HealthVault Be Well Fund to develop a home-based glucose monitoring system for patients with diabetes. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9760&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9760&fromRSS=true Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Officials at MedAvant Healthcare Solutions have set a September 8 date for an auction sale of the struggling company and already have one purchaser lined up. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9759&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9759&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT The QuadraMed Corporation of Reston, Va. has announced the general availability of Smart Identity Exchange, a next-generation identity management platform designed to help hospitals and health information exchanges in their efforts to identify, reconcile and manage patient records. Read about this and other business news, contracts and new products in this week's Vendor Notebook. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9757&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9757&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT According to a study published this month, a new video game for young adults with cancer has been found to significantly improve medication adherence. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9756&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9756&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Miami Children's Hospital will launch new technology to help engage and educate patients and their families in their healthcare process. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9755&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9755&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Healthcare IT products tend to become complex and unwieldy as add-ons are introduced, to the point that they cost the provider time and money rather than saving anything. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9754&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9754&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Life sciences companies globally are turning to e-clinical solutions in order to improve inefficiencies and cut costs during the most expensive phase of drug development, says a new report. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9753&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9753&fromRSS=true Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Saint Vincent Health System is planning a large-scale deployment of IT across its system, from the emergency department to the pharmacy. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9752&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9752&fromRSS=true Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Southern Orthopedic Specialists, a 14-physician practice in metropolitan Atlanta, has installed a wireless data communications network at each of its five clinics. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9751&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9751&fromRSS=true Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Combating medical infections in healthcare settings is proving to be profitable for Cardinal Health, which is considering splitting its clinical and medical products units off from the troubled - and much larger - drug distribution business. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9750&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9750&fromRSS=true Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Americans are so dissatisfied with their healthcare system that 82 percent of them think it should be rebuilt, according to a new survey by The Commonwealth Fund. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9748&fromRSS=true http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9748&fromRSS=true Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT