CoActiv Medical has launched a new Exam-PACS touch screen image view for the new Apple iPad large-screen digital viewing and communications device.

Sunquest will introduce its Integrated Clinical Environment physician portal to the U.S. marketplace this year.

Health IT leaders, who are looking into joining an health information exchange (HIE) platform, must first build trust, advised to Dana Gibson, vice president of WNC Data Link Services, which includes 16 hospitals in western North Carolina. CMIO spoke with Gibson about how to her organization developed this network.

Whether health information exchange (HIE) efforts start from the ashes of a defunct regional health information organization or some other impetus, all share the goal of actually exchanging healthcare information, and implementers have the foresight (and stubbornness) necessary to overcome a range of obstacles. Arguably, the biggest of these are matters of trust and money.

Hartford Healthcare is implementing an health information exchange (HIE) platform that will connect providers in the Hartford, Conn.-based healthcare system and be deployed in a statewide demonstration project beginning next month.CMIO spoke with Steve ONeill, vice president of information services at Hartford Healthcare, about building an HIE using open-source tools.

The progress toward defining meaningful use has been impressive, but the timeline may be too compressed for many, said Steven Stack, MD, member of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association (AMA), last week, during the eHealth Initiative's second Webinar on meaningful use. Also, to digitize 20 percent of the U.S. economy in a three- to five-year period, theres not enough workforce to do that, Stack said.

While the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and its Center for Health IT supports the goals of the new meaningful use regulations announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the organization stated that the regulations, as proposed, pose hurdles that challenge small- and medium-size medical practices ability to achieve all that is required to receive the incentive payments.

The board of directors of the health nonprofit eHealth Initiative andFoundation Tuesday announced the appointment of Jennifer Covich Bordenick as CEO, effective immediately.