Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

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Past buzz, down to business

Health imaging exchange (HIE) has passed the buzzword mantle to a new contender, accountable care organizations (ACOs). This is more than a move in the health IT lexicon and evidence of its passage was everywhere at HIMSS11 in Orlando, Fla. HIEs haven't vanished and their endemic challenges remain as well. There were 24 educational sessions and a dedicated HIE Symposium on the HIMSS syllabus, and a variety of vendors on the show floor; while HIE flavored the interoperability showcase as well.

NeHC survey identifies top challenges for HIE stakeholders

Privacy and security, adoption and use, and sustainability were named as the top challenges to health information exchange (HIE) in a recent National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) stakeholder survey.

Harris makes $155M dive into health IT with Carefx purchase

Harris, a communications and IT company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Carefx, a developer of interoperability workflow technologies built on its Fusionfx platform, for approximately $155 million.

Siemens appoints Overhage as CMIO

Siemens Healthcare has appointed J. Marc Overhage, MD, PhD, as chief medical informatics officer (CMIO) of its health services business unit.

athenahealth books strong Q4, FY10

athenahealth, a developer of web-based business services for physician practices, announced positive financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2010, which ended Dec. 31, 2010.

Pa. health system to go live on GE HIE

Butler Health System (BHS), which serves western Pennsylvania communities, will implement a health information exchange (HIE) from GE Healthcare to enable clinical information access between BHS and its affiliated and independent physicians, as well as referral hospitals outside of the immediate community.

Mirth selected for Florida statewide HIE

Open-source healthcare IT developer Mirth has been selected to power the planned statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Florida. As part of the HIE implementation, Mirth technology will be made available to all healthcare providers statewide, delivered on the Mirth appliance framework.

HIE Chronicles Part II: Building a better system

This is the second installment in CMIO's exclusive web series exploring the birth of Rhode Islands statewide health information exchange (HIE), featuring the leading stakeholders and clinical perspectives on its development.

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