Industry News | Thursday, September 02 2010
Healthcare organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded research paper published in the Sept. 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Industry News | Thursday, September 02 2010
UnitedHealth Group will invest $10 million to help California’s critical access hospitals improve their health IT systems and adopt EHRs.
New Products | Thursday, September 02 2010
Caspio has made available new chart applications to create visual web-based charts and dashboards for any database and assist users' understanding of large data sets.
Contracts & Installations | Thursday, September 02 2010
Maine’s HealthInfoNet has selected Orion Health as the primary technology provider for its statewide health information exchange (HIE).
Industry News | Wednesday, September 01 2010
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced three sets of grants and cooperative agreements, totaling nearly $17 million for patient-centered outcomes research.
Industry News | Wednesday, September 01 2010
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has launched a non-profit, wholly owned subsidiary organization, called the Global Health Informatics Partnership, to serve as an international center for collaborative initiatives on healthcare informatics.
Partnerships & Alliances | Wednesday, September 01 2010
Brit Systems and healthcare group purchasing organization Amerinet have entered into a three-year agreement for critical test results management.
Clinical Studies | Wednesday, September 01 2010
Using readily available computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, researchers can quickly generate valuable gene signatures for predicting breast cancer without specialized software or extensive bioinformatics training, according to an article published online Sept. 1 in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research.
Industry News | Wednesday, September 01 2010
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has launched Quality 101, an online resource for the basics and metrics of quality measurement and improvement.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, September 01 2010
Greenway Medical Technologies has added four health information exchange (HIE) programs, independent physician associations (IPAs) and regional medical centers to its client roster using PrimeSuite, the company’s EHR practice management and interoperability system, to connect group practices using clinical, financial and administrative functions.
Contracts & Installations | Wednesday, September 01 2010
Iasis Healthcare, which operates 16 healthcare facilities across six states, has selected QuadraMed's coding, compliance and reporting technologies to improve coding practices and transition to the ICD-10 code sets in 2013.
New Products | Wednesday, September 01 2010
The FDA has cleared Haldor Advanced Technologies’ ORLocate, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system that accounts for items used during surgery to reduce incidence of surgical items left inside patients.
Partnerships & Alliances | Tuesday, August 31 2010
Storage management systems developer Symantec Health and Siemens Healthcare have completed compatibility testing for Symantec’s cloud-based medical image archiving offering and Siemens’ PACS technology.
Executive Announcements | Tuesday, August 31 2010
The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium (IICC) has appointed Eric Olson, vice president of informatics and eBusiness for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, as its president.
Executive Announcements | Tuesday, August 31 2010
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) has released the names of 19 medical groups and organized systems of care that will be participating in its ACO Development Collaborative to assist member organizations in becoming successful accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Industry News | Tuesday, August 31 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a reminder to healthcare providers, health plans, clearinghouses and vendors about the approaching January 2011 compliance date for testing transaction standards.
Mergers & Acquisitions | Tuesday, August 31 2010
Ebix, a supplier of e-commerce services to the insurance industry, has signed a merger agreement to acquire Atlanta-based A.D.A.M., on a debt-free basis for aggregate merger consideration of $66 million.
Industry News | Tuesday, August 31 2010
Weno Healthcare has submitted its application to become an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) authorized certification and testing body (ATCB) in an effort to increase overall adoption for certified EHR technology.
Executive Announcements | Monday, August 30 2010
CAS Medical Systems has appointed Thomas M. Patton president, CEO and a member of its board of directors, effective Aug. 27.
Changes are comnig to the 2011 Interoperability Showcase and Connectathon events, said Celina Roth, HIMSS manager of informatics, IHE Secretariat, during a IHE [IIntegrating the Healthcare Experience] webinar Aug. 17.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR incentive payments are not considered reimbursement for money expended on EHR technology, but are intended to offset the cost associated with adoption and ongoing meaningful use, according to CMS during an Aug. 12 webinar.
Funding incentives for EHR use is the main goal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) meaningful use initiative, and there are incentive programs for both hospitals and eligible professionals, according to Elizabeth Holland, health insurance specialist at the Department of Health and Human Services, who spoke during a CMS-sponsored webinar Aug. 8.
Stage 1 requirements for meaningful use incentives aim to strike a balance between the overall goal of EHR use and widespread adoption, while avoiding added work, said Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, chief medical informatics officer at Elsevier Health Services, during a HIMSS webinar titled “Meaningful Use: Safety and Quality of Care.”
Mobile healthcare technology is delivering decision support right now, but it’s not all for clinicians, according to panelists at the World Congress second annual leadership summit on mHealth in Boston last week.
“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.