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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Study: Providers take long view when it comes to health IT spending

A majority of healthcare organizations have built IT expenditures into their financial plans for the coming years, according to a report by Beacon Partners, a healthcare consulting company. 

Webinar: Two-factor authentication locks down HIE

Its one thing to talk about a framework of trust in a health information exchange (HIE), but the hard reality of building that framework is you have to protect every point of entry, said Bill Beighe, CIO of the Santa Cruz HIE  (SCHIE), during a recent webinar. 

SOAPware provides EMR to Puerto Rico physicians via Medens Cloud

SOAPware agreed to provide the cloud-based SOAPware EMR/practice management software to medical practices implementing the Medens Cloud.

Tri-State REC nabs athenahealth EHR

Tri-State Regional Extension Center, based in Cincinnati and operated by nonprofit health information exchange organization HealthBridge, has selected athenahealth as a supported EHR partner.

Report: State, local insurance exchanges to hit $595M by 2015

State and local spending on health insurance exchanges is estimated to reach $595 million by 2015, according to a new report from consulting firm Input.

CDC taps Accenture for IT, info management

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected Accenture as a prime contractor on its 10-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity CDC Information Management Services contract to be used to acquire IT services and tools supporting CDCs global public health initiatives.

Halamka sets the stage for meaningful use

In some ways, quality measures as they exist are process measures, said John D. Halamka, MD, during his closing keynote HIMSS Virtual Conference presentation.

HIMSS Webinar: 10 Steps to achieving Stage 1 of meaningful use

Aurora Health Care, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit healthcare system serving eastern Wisconsin, is engaged in a three-year process to qualify its 15 hospitals, 1,200 eligible providers and 120 physical locations for Stage 1 meaningful use of EHRs. According to Judith A. Murphy, RN, vice president of IT at Aurora, this effort has been roughly 75 percent clinical and 25 percent IT.

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