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Despite the presence of heavy hitters such as IBM, 3M and Dell, no single company owns the EMR market, according to a report from Kalorama Information.
IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a provider of data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Written by Ryan McBride
CIOs and CMIOs are finding new ways to balance enterprise data storage challenges with providing electronic patient information and images where and when they are needed.
IBM is extending its lending arm, IBM Global Financing, to four EHR providers--Siemens Healthcare, Lavender & Wyatt Systems, Healthcare Management Systems and SCC Soft Computer--through new financing agreements.
Avnet Technology Solutions has launched new service offerings to assist in the storage and management of medical images for EHRs, and will allow its partners in the U.S. and Canada to offer vendor neutral archive solutions through its healthcare solutions practice--Avnet HealthPath.
IBM has earned a CAD $22.5 million (U.S. $21.3 million) project with the Government of Manitoba to create an EHR system using dbMotion.
InSite One has certified IBM as a distribution partner, allowing commercial installations of IBM storage technology to become part of its medical archiving and data recovery services.
IBM has launched a Health Analytics Solution Center, part of a network of global centers addressing the demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision making and optimal quality of care.
The Agence de la Sante et des Services Sociaux de Montreal has signed a five-year, $3.6 million ($3.3 million, U.S.) deal with Artefact Informatique, the health division of IBM's LGS Group, to build a registry for digital medical images based on the Canada-wide cross-enterprise document sharing standard.
Chief information officers (CIOs) spend more than half their time on activities designed to spur innovation within their organizations, according to a report conducted by the IBM Institute for Business Value.
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TeraMedica Healthcare Technology is partnering with Logicalis to provide image management solutions to healthcare providers that are making the move to EHRs.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is connecting hospitals, clinics and physicians offices in Northern Kentucky via an Epic Systems' EMR roll out using IBM technologies.
Many hospitals are considering new vendor-neutral solutions for archiving and accessing medical images to avoid being locked into closed, proprietary software, according to a report from market research firm KLAS.
The Sisters of Mercy Health System has chosen IBM to standardize its service support processes in preparation for a seven-state EHR deployment.
IBM has teamed with University of North Carolina Health Care (UNCHC) to develop new treatments for diseases, such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer, using IBM software and hardware to support the Carolina Data Warehouse for Health.
IBM has released InfoSphere Streams, a computing system that analyzes massive volumes of information-in-motion from a multitude of real-time sources.
IBM Global Financing, the lending and leasing business segment of IBM, is adding a $2 billion financing component to help providers finance health IT initiatives tied to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
RIS Concepts has released multiple voice recognition system support for its RCI-RIS, a Web-based, multi-facility RIS, and RAD-RIS for the needs of radiology groups reading studies for multiple facilities.
Oracle has crafted an agreement to buy server vendor Sun Microsystems for approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM have partnered to build an EMR-enabled primary care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision of an information-based, connected healthcare system.
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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.
The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.
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.
