Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Hospital CEO turnover increased in 2009, tracking at 18 percent in the U.S., up from 14 percent in 2008, according to the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has offered an alternative approach for the definition of meaningful use, including the addition of 12 objectives to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Conference News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Symantec unveiled Symantec Health, a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing application for healthcare providers, at the 2010 HIMSS conference in Atlanta last week.
Mergers & Acquisitions | Wednesday, March 10 2010
The stockholders of QuadraMed have approved its acquisition by Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm. The all-cash transaction for all of QuadraMed’s stock is valued at approximately $126 million, according to the company.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, March 10 2010
Annapolis Pediatrics in Annapolis, Md., has selected Sage North America to implement the Sage Intergy Suite of financial and clinical products across its four clinics.
Industry News | Wednesday, March 10 2010
A survey of 1,022 Michiganders revealed a gap between insurance coverage and access to healthcare, and the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation suggests that lawmakers must focus on closing this gap.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
The Virginia State Legislature this week approved a bill mandating health insurers, healthcare subscription plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to fully cover the cost of healthcare services provided through telemedicine services.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Google announced a couple of integration agreements and technology additions for its Google Health product at this year'st HIMSS10 show in Atlanta, including an integration with e-prescribing provider Surescripts and a future collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Partial adoption of meaningful use of health IT should result in the receiving of partial fiscal incentives, wrote Ted Epperly, MD, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), in a letter to Charlene M. Frizzera, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
At the recent HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta, Intel announced its patient monitoring study with Mayo Clinic and introduced its Start Now initiative, a web portal that contains text and video statements by healthcare leaders about what they are doing to change the future of healthcare today.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Intelerad Medical Systems' InteleOne solution has been selected by the multi-site Carolina Regional Radiology in North Carolina to interconnect its facilities.
Industry News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
A survey from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) found that 76 percent of respondents from mostly independent medical practices believe that the government should fully pilot test the 2013 and 2015 meaningful use criteria before requiring them.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
InConcertCare, a health center-controlled network of eight community and migrant health centers that provides care to 78,000 people in underserved communities throughout Iowa and Nebraska, has selected GE Healthcare for its health IT system.
Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Data protection, availability and recovery solutions provider Venyu and medical data archiving and content management services provider InSite One have entered into a partnership to help manage electronic medical data within healthcare institutions.
Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, March 09 2010
FHN Hospital has selected Wolters Kluwer Health's ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, to automate the creation, deployment and maintenance of order sets.
Conference News | Tuesday, March 09 2010
Medical informatics provider TeraMedica Healthcare Technology showed three additional features for its flagship Evercore-Clinical Enterprise Suite—an updated web viewer, image management architecture and dashboard module—at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week.
Conference News | Monday, March 08 2010
Nuance Communications unveiled its advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and its medical mobile apps for smartphones at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta.
Industry News | Monday, March 08 2010
There is a real risk of inadvertent disclosure of personal health information (PHI) through peer-to-peer file sharing networks, although the risk is not as large as for personal financial information, according to an article published online in the March issue of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association.
Contracts & Installations | Monday, March 08 2010
Merge Healthcare and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have initiated a partnership to create a testing environment for the company’s new mobile healthcare technologies.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
TeraRecon, a provider of advanced visualization and decision support technologies, released updates to its Aquarius iNtuition at the 22nd European Congress of Radiology (ECR), March 4-8 in Vienna.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
The American Medical Association (AMA) and Dell are collaborating for health IT adoption for such technologies as EMRs, e-prescribing and laboratory services through the AMA’s new health information solutions platform for physicians.
Partnerships & Alliances | Monday, March 08 2010
The Ohio State Medical Association has expanded its agreement with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
Vital Images showcased its Vitrea Enterprise Suite at HIMSS10 last week in Atlanta, which allows nurses and referring physicians to access imaging data from home or in their office via the web-based suite, and clinicians to use Vitrea as a planning tool when preparing for cases.
Conference News | Sunday, March 07 2010
3M Health Information Systems is looking to give "physicians back their mobility" in 2010, David Owen, product line marketing manager, told CMIO at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, where the company introduced its Mobile Dictation platform for smartphones, designed for healthcare providers.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Barco has added two new point-of-care solutions to its product line, the ProScribe and CliniScape mobile point of care devices.
Partnerships & Alliances | Friday, March 05 2010
Royal Philips Electronics is collaborating with Microsoft to build on Philips Healthcare’s foundation of healthcare informatics and clinical decision support offerings at the point of care.
Industry News | Friday, March 05 2010
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) is confident about its prospects for becoming accredited after reviewing the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding certifying bodies of EHR certification, according to Alisa Ray, executive director of CCHIT.
Contracts & Installations | Friday, March 05 2010
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, has executed an agreement with Prime Care Physicians to deploy NextGen EHR and NextGen Practice Management (PM).
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Viztek has added a cloud-based, pay-per-use offering to its family of Opal PACS applications for radiology and orthopedic departments.
New Products | Friday, March 05 2010
Health IT company Merge Healthcare has released eFilm Mobile, an extension of eFilm Workstation to provide access to worklists and studies from an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Conference News | Friday, March 05 2010
Teamwork was the focus for Emdeon at the HIMSS10 conference in Atlanta last week, which featured the Harlem Globetrotters shooting baskets in the center of the booth.
Conference News | Friday, March 05 2010
ATLANTA—InterSystems participated in a demonstration that simulated state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) for the duration of the HIMSS10 conference this week.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--Verizon Wireless showcased its telehealth and mobility solutions for healthcare organizations, as well as its new IT platform, aimed at aiding EHR adoption, at HIMSS10 this week.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA–Thomson Reuters showcased an array of products focusing on the upcoming meaningful use requirements and interoperability, including its latest Pharmacy Intervention application, at HIMSS10 this week.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, March 04 2010
University of California, (UC) Davis Medical Center has selected medical imaging and information systems provider, Lumedx, to manage its clinical and operational data, by purchasing Lumedx Apollo structured reporting, analytics and interoperability products for its heart and vascular centers.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
Joint Commission Resources, an affiliate of the Joint Commission, has launched a new consulting service that will provide an objective evaluation of technology with a patient safety focus.
Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
A February report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on health information exchanges (HIEs) cited ways that sharing electronic personal health information about a patient has had a positive effect on the quality of care providers deliver to patients.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA–At HIMSS 2010 this week, Motorola’s enterprise mobility solutions division introduced its DS6878-HC cordless 2D imager, designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use in healthcare environments.
Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
ATLANTA--The benefits of virtual data in real-world healthcare were clear at the Agfa HealthCare booth at HIMSS10 this week. The company debuted to the U.S. market the Impax Data Center with Xero Technology, an upgrade for the Impax Data Center as well as a way to cut costs and increase PACS image availability via virtualization.