September 28, 2012 John DeGaspari
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As health information technology and health information exchanges (HIEs) make progress on improving the quality of healthcare, one area that has received limited research is how HIEs can provide timely access to clinical information in response to a disaster. That's the subject of the final report, released in July, of the Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration (SERCH), which makes recommendations to improve how the nation's ability to respond to natural disasters through the use of HIEs.
September 6, 2012
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Merge Healthcare, a Chicago-based provider of numerous electronic clinical systems including EMRs and PACS [picture archiving and communication system], has announced that its Board of Directors is evaluating the possibility of selling the company or merging with another. The company has retained Allen & Company LLC, a New York-based investment bank, to help explore and evaluate these options.
August 28, 2012 Mark Hagland
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At the “Merge Live” client conference in downtown Chicago, well-known imaging informatics expert Eliot Siegel, M.D., offers his perspectives on the future of imaging informatics, and the large gap between EHR reality and medical specialist usability
August 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Randy Hicks, M.D. and his colleagues at Regional Medical Imaging in Flint, Michigan, are moving ahead to continue to enhance the core IT infrastructure for their imaging center operations. Dr. Hicks sees the future in an interconnected, and very strategic, way.
August 16, 2012 Joe Marion
blog
Consumer electronics can impact healthcare applications. Will the outcome of the Apple-Samsung trial impact healthcare IT innovation?
August 14, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
An initiative led by a group of healthcare leaders in Michigan illustrates what’s possible when the smartest kinds of utilization management, physician education, clinical decision support, and utilization analytics elements are brought together in the same program.
August 7, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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New South Wales (NSW) Health in Australia has completed the first phase of an ambitious project to create a statewide health imaging exchange. Healthcare accounts for 27 percent of total government spending in Australia, and with an aging population with increased chronic conditions, there is potential for an enterprise image repository (EIR) to improve diagnosis and lead to better patient outcomes.
July 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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As the 2012 Olympic kicks off in London, somewhere amid the spectacle there will be a hint of healthcare informatics touching the Games. Yes, even the health IT world can’t escape Olympic fever. Here are a few examples where the two worlds are connecting.
June 21, 2012 David Raths
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It’s always interesting to see new companies pop up on the HCI 100 list, but it’s even more fun to speculate about which companies will make the list two or three years from now. Healthcare Informatics interviewed the CEOs of five promising companies to keep an eye on.
June 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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It would be dramatic to say a health IT vendor contract can make or break a provider organization, and that’s far from the truth. Yet, according to many industry experts, in this day and age, when time is of the essence due to the regulatory pressures emerging from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (ARRA/HITECH) Act, the transition to the ICD-10 coding set, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it’s not a stretch to say that strategizing a vendor contract for a clinical information system (IS) is of the utmost importance.
June 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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What happens when a health information system isn’t working out and the vendor contract has long since been formalized, finalized, and signed on the dotted line? Experts weigh in on whether you should cut your losses and start the process over, or if you should stick it out.
May 29, 2012
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lifeIMAGE, a Newton, Mass.-based image sharing vendor, has announced it is releasing certain open application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used by HIT developers or imaging devices to enable the exchange of medical images and related patient records directly from its software. According to lifeIMAGE, its network has been used to share over 160,000,000 medical images across providers representing 40,000 affiliated physicians.
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