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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Nebraska receives $5M in federal HIE funding

Nebraska has been awarded $6.8 million by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) to continue development of its statewide HIE.

Orion Health integration engine gets an update

Orion Health has updated its Rhapsody integration engine, adding a unit testing framework and a graphical interface for complex routing.

Universal language for health IT standards urged

Achieving the full potential of health IT will require an information-sharing infrastructure that facilitates data exchange among institutions, according to a report released by the Presidents Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council is a presidentially appointed group consisting of academia, non-governmental organizations and industry members.

Study: Only 2.8% of children's hospitals have comprehensive EHR

Most children's hospitals lack the minimum functionalities needed for a basic EHR, according to an article in the December issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Ohio children's hospital selects Medicity for HIE service

The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, a nonprofit children's hospital serving 20 counties in Ohio and eastern Indiana, has selected Medicity to implement bidirectional HIE, connecting the medical center, affiliated physicians and other partners in its healthcare community.

Ontario hospital to share patient data with QuadraMed EMR

Providence Care, a health services provider based in Kingston, Ontario, has selected QuadraMeds computerized-patient record EMR to drive regional patient data sharing.

Medica to offer personalized online health management program

Health insurance company Medica will begin to offer a personalized online health management program for its commercial members on Jan. 1, 2011. The online program determines a persons health status and ability to take health-related action enabling Medica to tailor support and allocate resources to its members.

NeHC webinar: Beacon Communities initiatives focus on analytics

Many of the Beacon Communities are focusing efforts on initiatives involving clinical data repositories, analytics and master patient indexes, according to Craig Brammer, deputy director of the Beacon Community Program at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) during a webinar this week hosted by the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC).

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