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EHR implementations are the top priority among healthcare IT professionals, with 85 percent indicating that they are either in the midst of an EHR project or plan to start one within the next 18 months, based on a survey from Embarcadero Technologies.
InSite One has released InDex software v6.1 enterprise archiving tools for sharing patient data, including patient identity matching and reconciliation features.
The third CONNECT Code-A-Thon convened recently at Florida International University in Miami. The Federal Health Architecture's open source development event drew a range of participants, demonstrating the growing interest in CONNECT.
Written by Mary Stevens
BOSTON--The Office of Nursing Services (ONS) at the Department of Veterans Affairs is developing an inter-agency standards-based catalog of terms to drive data use, re-use and sharing. And now this effort is at the tipping point, said Murielle Beene, MBA, RN, chief nursing informatics officer at the ONS; and Diane Bedecarre, MS, RN-BC, during a session at the recent ANIA/CARING conference.
Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Texas, has ordered Digisonics’ Enterprise Image Management & Reporting System to provide the hospital with digital imaging, professional reporting and configurable clinical database software applications for cardiology, OB/GYN and general ultrasound.
Too many requirements on data transmission within an organization are not advised, according to the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) in its comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) regarding the initial set of standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria for EHR technology.
CIOs are concerned about their ability to implement the standards recommended by the Health IT Standards Committee in time to meet currently established deadlines, according to a recent survey conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
InSite One, a provider of medical data archiving and disaster recovery managed services, has created a health information exchange (HIE), spanning more than 600 healthcare institutions across the U.S.
Athens Regional Medical Center in Athens, Ga., has purchased additional patient monitoring equipment from Spacelabs Healthcare.
Digisonics has enhanced its DigiView customer roster with facilities in Florida and Texas.
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Hendricks Regional Health, a nonprofit health system in Danville, Ind., has selected Corepoint Health's Corepoint Integration Engine to replace an existing interface engine.
InSite One is presenting its InDex Release 6 as a foundation for the Enterprise Archive to attendees of the 2009 Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) meeting this week in Charlotte, N.C.
NovaRad is introducing NovaPro, the firm's latest RIS/PACS product, which is built for radiologist groups that read for multiple hospitals, clinics and imaging centers.
CHICAGO—Although health IT professionals agree that the utilization of data standards can enhance business operations, allow interoperability of systems and improve patient care, their adoption can be challenging due to legacy data and a lack of consensus as to which standards should be implemented, according to Geraldine Wade, MD, principal and managing director of Atlanta-based Clinical Informatics Consulting.
The latest development in the standardization of information flow between radiologists and EHR systems was announced at the 94th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) by Health Level Seven (HL7) and the Health Story Project (previously known as the CDA for Common Document Types, CDA4CDT project).
Health Level Seven (HL7), a developer of healthcare standards, has approved four new implementation guides for its Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). The guides address documentation requirements for diagnostic imaging, consultations, quality reporting and home health monitoring.
ORLANDO–Many different information exchange patterns exist between hospitals, patients, physicians, labs, imaging and more, and according to a HIMSS 2008 e-session “Service Oriented Architecture in Healthcare,” a service-oriented architecture (SOA) information fabric can help create interoperable information exchange networks with HL7.
SOA Consortium and SOA and Object Management Group, two IT consortiums, will join Health Level Seven (HL7) in sponsoring a conference designed to focus on using service oriented architecture (SOA) in healthcare.
Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare IT standards development organization, has released a ballot to approve its Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.
Friday, July 30 2010
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.