May 14, 2012 | Diana Manos
Streamline Health Solutions, a developer of enterprise content management and business analytics software, announced Monday that Boston Medical Center has signed an additional five-year agreement to license the company's technology for use in its 19 physician group practices.

May 9, 2012 | Mike Miliard
ONC's Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) has published a "Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information," which aims to help physicians, nurses and IT staff better understand how the safety of patient data is essential to meaningful use of electronic health records and mobile devices.

May 8, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Despite its potential, sales of Microsoft Amalga have been limited and its overall KLAS performance score has dropped 14 points in the past two years, from 84.2 to 69.9, revealing a split in customer opinions, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.

May 4, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
The Department of Health and Human Services has contracted with San Francisco-based Archimedes, a healthcare modeling company, to put high-powered mathematical analytics in the hands of its agencies, signaling "a new era of medical decision-making."

April 26, 2012 | Mike Miliard
IBM has made news on the big data front twice this week, first with Wednesday's acquisition of Pittsburgh-based Vivisimo, and today with an announcement from SUNY Buffalo about multiple sclerosis research.

March 30, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the premier academic medical centers in the world and among the first customers of Microsoft Amalga. Hear the Director of IT at NYP talk about the organizationís strategic use of Amalga as a clinical data repository that enables the health system to improve processes, performance, and patient care. The webinar will address how NYP uses Amalga to achieve compliance for inpatient and outpatient clinical quality measures, reduce readmissions for congestive heart failure, and reduce venous thromboembolic events. The presentation will also covers how NYP connects Amalga to Microsoft HealthVault to meet meaningful use objectives for patient engagement.

March 7, 2012 | White Papers
In just a few short years, the health information exchange (HIE) market has grown exponentially and continues to expand in terms of number of initiatives, scope of services provided and technology offerings. When the nonprofit, community-based Central Florida Regional Health Information Organization(CFRHIO) was formed in 2003, its leaders focused on improving the quality of healthcare across the seven counties it serves. Read this white paper to learn how CFRHIO built a repository platform that collects data from numerous clinical providers into a central database, which participating providers can access, regardless of where the data came from or where the patient is when the data is retrieved.

September 18, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
This webinar will discuss cost-cutting strategies for securing sensitive patient communications, focusing on the delivery of Explanation of Benefits (EOBs), as well as other direct and portal-based electronic interactions that need to comply with HIPAA Privacy Rules.

August 26, 2011 | White Papers
Learn how a MDM approach can solve challenges associated with transitioning to <a href="/directory/icd-10" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">ICD-10</a> by utilizing a single business process management layer with centralized rules, mappings, and translations that can be applied uniformly to all applications.

August 26, 2011 | White Papers
This white paper written by industry expert Shahid Shah addresses the challenges healthcare IT professionals face when preparing to meet <a href="/directory/meaningful-use" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Meaningful Use</a> standards and the capabilities needed to complete a successful transition.

April 25, 2012 | Kelly Mehler
Todd Park (@todd_park), United States chief technology officer for the Obama Administration, engaged in a live Twitter chat as part of Big Data Week, a string of community-led events relating to big data. Here is a Twitter recap of the Q&A.

August 17, 2011 | Keith W. Boone
In "The XML Consensus is breaking down" Grahame Grieve distinguishes three camps, heavy engineering crowd, the internet mob, and the data dictionary crowd. He discusses how XML seems to be failing to bring these crowds together.

May 16, 2011 | John Halamka
It's been a bad month for the cloud.

December 9, 2010 | John Halamka
I'm often asked how healthcare reform will impact IT planning and implementation over the next few years.

July 29, 2010 | Tom Sullivan
Perhaps it's waiting on the back burner but ICD-10 did not make the cut of health IT's most important projects for 2010 and 2011, at least not among healthcare executives.

December 15, 2011 | Industry News Release
MedAssurant, Inc., a leading provider of data-driven healthcare solutions, today announced that Healthcare Partners, IPA (HCPIPA), one of the largest physician-owned independent physician associations (IPA) in the Northeast, has selected MedAssurant's Prospective Advantage® and Capitated Risk Adjustment (CARA™) solutions to proactively identify gaps in care and quality to improve clinical documentation, utilization and risk score accuracy for their Medicare Advantage members.

October 11, 2011 | Industry News Release
DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the company has achieved compliance with all forty-two data security standards outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Performed by Trusted Consulting Compliance (TrustCC), the evaluation of compliance was designed to measure the controls over DriveSavers data recovery processes as they are performed for customers with damaged media containing electronic protected health information (PHI). Damaged media received from healthcare providers may contain sensitive electronic data such as patient records and medical transcripts for doctors, hospitals and/or clinics. DriveSavers is the only certified HIPAA compliant data recovery service provider in the industry that meets all forty-two data security standards.

September 14, 2011 | Industry News Release
Cyber-Ark® Software, the leading global information security provider for protecting and managing critical applications, identities and sensitive information, today announced Inter-Business Vault® as a Service, an innovative cloud-based solution for rapidly exchanging sensitive files with external third parties. Based on its patented Digital Vault technology, Cyber-Ark is the only vendor to provide a secure cloud delivery model that protects sensitive file transfers in transit and at rest. This capability enables organizations to support the exchange of files quickly and cost-effectively to meet business needs, while alleviating concerns over security and compliance requirements.

June 2, 2011 | Industry News Release
Health 2.0, IMPAQ International (IMPAQ) and NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC) are proud to announce the launch of the Medicare Claims Data Developer Challenge, which will solicit entries to develop an online dashboard for comparative effectiveness, health services and health policy research.

May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
Visual Healthcare Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ OTC: VSHC) announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Sygenics Life Sciences Software (Sygenics LSS) to market a 2nd generation of Lab Automation applications to serve the scientific community. This allows researchers to replace paper-based scientific records and paper-based scrapbooks with more dependable and secure electronic storage capabilities, as well as the ability to instantaneously share information with other scientists of their choice.