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Cegedim has acquired the Switzerland-based customer relationship management and direct marketing business unit of IMS Health, which will complement its Swiss CRM and direct marketing offerings. Financial details were not disclosed.
Integrated Document Solutions (IDS) has released Reforma 3.0 bar-coded forms management system.
Trapeze Networks has expanded its Trapeze wireless LAN technology to Concord Hospital, a regional medical center in Concord, N.H., to boost mobile wi-fi capabilities for end-to-end quality of service.
The Clinical Quality Workgroup of the Health IT Standards Committee under the Department of Health and Human Services is now in a “hibernation period," said Janet Corrigan, MD, chair and president of the National Quality Forum, speaking at the HIT Standards Committee's July meeting.
Roche Diagnostics has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. FDA for the CoaguChek XS Pro system, a point-of-care anticoagulation monitor with a built-in barcode reader that can capture operator and patient identification information.
Intuit has transformed its healthcare business by combining newly acquired Medfusion with its Quicken Health Group to create a new business unit called Intuit Health. Based in Cary, N.C., the group provides online connected services to healthcare settings.
Security technology company Redspin is now offering an additional HIPAA security assessment service for the healthcare industry segment, addressing requirements of the HIPAA security rule and the HITECH Act through a risk-based approach.
AirStrip Technologies has received FDA clearance to market the AirStrip remote patient monitoring (RPM) tool, including AirStrip RPM Critical Care and AirStrip RPM Cardiology.
Health information exchanges are nearing meaningful use in terms of their business strategy, said Trudi Matthews, director of policy and public relations at HealthBridge, during a recent webinar discussion on the release of the eHealth Initiative's annual HIE survey. The webinar, hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based eHealth Initiative, disseminated data from the organization's seventh annual survey on HIE.
Ninety-four percent of physicians are using smartphones to communicate, manage personal and business workflows and access medical information, according to a report from Spyglass Consulting Group. This represents a significant increase from Spyglass’ findings in a similar study published in November 2006 in which 59 percent of physicians reported using smartphones.
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Gwinnett Health System in Lawrenceville, Ga., has selected computer-assisted coding technology from Ingenix and A-Life Medical to improve its coding process.
The University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) in Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed a contract with Epic Systems to become the primary vendor for clinical software and systems at UMHS for the first stage of a multi-year effort that will involve computing and clinical staff to transform the use of IT at UMHS.
Health IT company Shared Health has named Justin L. Neece, MBA, its chief operating officer.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual release of state-by-state health quality data has been expanded to include new data on health insurance. The additional data are intended to provide information on healthcare quality categorized by source of payment, including private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and those without insurance.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) submitted an application to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to become an authorized testing and certification body last week.
Physician practice adoption of e-prescribing has not guaranteed that individual physicians will routinely use the technology, according to a study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
In the past decade, nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) plans set aside billions of dollars in surplus--essentially retained profits--even as they raised premiums for consumers by as high as 20 percent annually, according to a report by nonprofit publisher Consumers Union.
Keen interest from the Australian government toward e-health initiatives will be one of the major drivers of double-digit growth for the country's health IT market from 2009 to 2014, according to an analysis from Frost & Sullivan.
ClearPractice has been authorized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, allowing eligible customers to qualify for a 2 percent reimbursement when they use the company’s e-prescribing tool and a 2 percent reimbursement for Physician Quality Reporting Initiative reporting through the patient registry within ClearPractice’s EMR.
Winscribe has expanded its licensing agreement with Nuance Communications of Burlington, Mass., to provide a global dictation program integrated with speech recognition covering the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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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.