February 22, 2012 | Jeff Rowe
Expectations have been rising since HIMSS12 opened, but the wait should come to an end today as ONC officials unveil the proposed rule for meaningful use Stage 2 - what some are calling a "sneak peek."

February 21, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Fred Rachman, MD, CEO of the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services, prompted the group of physicians and technologists in the room to start thinking about what a successful healthcare system might look like.

February 17, 2012 | Mike Miliard
The number of hospitals using health information technology has more than doubled in the last two years, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday.

February 17, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a developer of interoperability technology for health information exchange, has launched ICAetc, which is billed as a free and open forum for vendors to test the interoperability of their programs, ensuring the connection and communication of disparate systems.

February 16, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Last year, health data breaches were up 97 percent, with all 50 states experiencing some sort of breach, and 385 incidents affecting more than 19 million people. Experts agree: If ever there were a time to protect and prepare against breaches, that time is now.

February 14, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Studies show that more than 60% of key clinical patient information resides within narrative text or scanned documents, effectively hidden from care providers and mission-critical care or payment systems. Frequently, health care records are widely dispersed and duplicated across many data silos in multiple forms and structures. Therefore, it is becoming more difficult for healthcare systems to efficiently leverage patient data to meet specific patient and quality care objectives. With physician revenues increasingly tied to achieving quality or cost goals, it is critical to apply insights derived from analysis of clinical information. View this webinar to learn how using Apixio’s intelligent information mining and retrieval within clinical workflow tools, such as electronic health records, can effectively use the entire patient record to optimize care coordination, quality and safety, as well as provider revenue.

November 28, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Case study featuring Children's Hospital Los Angeles' implementation of single sign-on (SSO) to support caregiver workflow across multiple applications, including Cerner and PeopleSoft.

November 9, 2011 | White Papers
Healthcare organizations are seeking to deliver a robust EMR that’s accessible from multiple points of care. It’s what your patient and medical communities are loudly demanding - with the goal of gaining increased access to patient medical records, and enhanced capabilities with the records themselves. One vital component of an EMR is often overlooked: feature-rich, easy access to integrated, patient-centric, archived medical imaging records. Learn how you can design a cost-effective plan to reduce the complexity, time, cost, and risk in planning and deploying a comprehensive clinical imaging strategy.

October 13, 2011 | White Papers
This paper, based on a roundtable session featuring Liz Johnson of Tenet Healthcare Corp., examines how leading hospitals and health systems in the country are implementing mobile point of care, sharing best practices and lessons learned, to deliver real-time, high-quality care anywhere.

September 15, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
West Tennessee Healthcare, one of the top ten largest public, not-for-profit healthcare systems in the US, recently deployed the combination of Single Sign-On (SSO) and Context Management to reduce the amount of time it takes users to login and find patient records in multiple applications, including Cerner, GE and Philips. Join West Tennessee's CIO, Jeff Frieling, as he outlines his identity and access management strategy, including the decision to deploy Vergence®, Microsoft's SSO and Context Management solution.

February 1, 2012 | Chad Johnson
With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT.

January 20, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
The phrase “Technology Saves Lives” seems pretty straightforward when you first read it. “Well, yes,” you might say. “Technology sure does save lives!” But when you read more than 400 real-life stories about just how technology does that, the phrase takes on a whole new level of importance.

January 13, 2012 | Jennifer Dennard
It’s not often that morning radio inspires me to write a blog post, but the latest bit from The Bert Show here in Atlanta surprisingly provided a bit of inspiration this morning.

January 5, 2012 | Christina Thielst
When will our employees learn not to identify patients on Facebook or any other social media site?

December 8, 2011 | Jim Rosenblum
In recent months, consumers in various cities across the country have been presented with billboards that advertise their local hospital's emergency room wait times in an effort to attract new patients.

January 3, 2012 | Industry News Release
DR Systems, the leading independent provider of medical imaging and information systems, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued to the company a new patent, which relates to tracking portions of medical images that are displayed according to particular display parameters, such as at a particular resolution.

November 2, 2011 | Industry News Release
Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Houston Healthcare has selected ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution at Houston Medical Center and Perry Hospital.

October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
Essence Group Holdings Corporation (EGHC) today announced that BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, managed by Sandbox Industries, has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Camden Partners in a private investment in Essence.

October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
he U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, a $5.3 million contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to address new medical coding standards. This is a two-year contract with three optional tasks.

October 12, 2011 | Industry News Release
Ohio State University Medical Center announced today that it is doubling telestroke technology capabilities across their hospital network with REACH Health, Inc. REACH’s telestroke technology allows physicians in smaller hospitals to use live video and on demand patient data to consult with OSU Medical Center neurologists in Columbus for rapid diagnosis and treatment. When a stroke patient arrives at a community hospital an OSU Medical Center stroke neurologist can review patient information, examine and talk with the patient, family members and the local clinicians to help determine the best course of treatment.