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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 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS), which represents approximately 1,800 health IT executives, has announced its annual awards that salute achievement in applied medical informatics. The awards will be distributed at the 18th annual Physician Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., this week.
NDS Surgical Imaging (NDSsi) of San Jose, Calif., has acquired a wireless video technology that extends its current imaging capabilities in the operating room.
Medrad has launched Manage.Report, an informatics application that allows healthcare professionals to remotely access clinical and administrative information associated with radiology patients' contrast injections.
Health Level Seven (HL7) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO), the provider of standardized clinical terminology, are working together to eliminate gaps and overlaps between the HL7 and IHTSDO standards.
CHICAGO—Informatics nurse professionals regularly use their expertise to promote the adoption of more effective, higher quality clinical applications within their organizations, which contributes significantly to patient safety, change management and usability of systems, according to findings from the 2009 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nursing Informatics Impact survey released this week at the 2009 HIMSS conference.
Philips Healthcare Informatics will create 30 new jobs as a result of its operations expansion in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Medrad demonstrated its P3T Cardiac CT Injection Software, shared results of a recent study of personalized patient injection protocols and showed potential advances of its P3T products at the 94th Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago.
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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.
