GE Healthcare has launched a new web-based patient portal, the Centricity Patient Online 13, which healthcare consumers can use to schedule appointments, pay bills, manage health information, send secure messages and receive reminders from providers.

Canon Europe has acquired Netherlands-based Delft Diagnostic Imaging.

Come hear the challenges and triumphs of implementing the first national EHR. Understand how Singapore addressed this ambitious business vision faster and at a lower cost than anyone expected.

Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas, implemented an EHR in 11 months, going from HIMSS Analytics Level 0.5 to 6. Learn key strategies for success, along with implementation pitfalls to avoid.

Technology is no stranger to Kaiser Permanente. The organization has attempted to deploy an EHR a few times, the last being successful. This session will tell that story, which goes back decades.

Join this session to learn how one Ambulatory Clinic preloaded 15 years of clinical data into its EHR, interfaced it to five hospitals, a reference lab, a home health agency, pharmacies and payors, and turned on clinical decision support. The result is nation-leading HEDIS quality measures, Medicare total cost of care, as well as documented improvements in safety, efficiency, and satisfaction. 

EHRs take more than center stage at this years HIMSS Annual Convention & Exhibition considering so many other hot topics originate from EHR systems, including meaningful use, cloud computing, medical device integration and mobile health. From choosing and implementing to improving and optimizing, theres no shortage of EHR information for HIMSS attendees to learn from others and share from their own experiences.

American Medical Association CEO James L. Madara, MD, wrote to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to urge him to take action against the implementation of ICD-10, informing him that the transition to ICD-10 as mandated by HIPAA would place a heavy burden on physicians without offering a direct benefit to individual patient care.