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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Wash. HIE drafts Axolotl image exchange service

Franciscan Health System has implemented the health information exchange (HIE) company Axolotls Elysium Image Exchange service to provide access to medical images for physicians and clinical care providers that use the Franciscan HIE.

Midwestern system signs Medicity for HIE

DeKalb, Ill.-based KishHealth System has selected Medicity's suite of health information exchange (HIE) products to improve care in its community, promote hospital-physician alignment and establish an infrastructure for connecting the health system to HIEs in the region and across the nation.

VA awards industry innovators with health IT projects

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced the first VA Innovation Initiative awards under the agencys Industry Innovation Competition. These four projects will use innovative new technologies in VA facilities to improve the quality of patient care for veterans and are the first of nearly 24 more awards to be made in the coming months, according to the agency.

HIE Chronicles: One State, One HIE, One Flood

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

Health Language standardizes terminology for Orion's HIE

Orion Health has embedded Health Languages Language Engine in Orion's Health Information Exchange (HIE), enabling data exchange by mapping data from disparate systems to standardized terminologies.

Five HIEs to Watch

What can Inland Northwest Health Services, Norman Regional Health System, MedVirginia, HEALTHeLINK and Quality Health Network teach other health information exchangesand possibly your organizationabout sustainability, integration, practice management and EMR adoption? Read on to discover what makes these five regional HIEs worth watching.

Report: New tax could accelerate medical device outsourcing

A new tax on device manufacturers that is included in healthcare reform might be one of many factors driving the outsourcing of medical devices, according to a new report by Kalorama Information.

HIMSS questions Obama's plan for universal healthcare language

HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) has serious reservations about the Presidents Advisory Council on Science and Technology (PCAST)s assertion that the central element of universal exchange language for healthcare information must be meta-tagged individual data elements and calls its assessment of EHR capabilities hopelessly out of date.

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