Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

HIMSS Analytics launches market intelligence tool

HIMSS Analytics has launched Logic, a global healthcare IT market intelligence tool.

Records discovered in abandoned homeless shelter

An anonymous tip led to the discovery of thousands of patient and employer records in a vacant building that used to house a homeless shelter, according to 7 Action News in Highland Park, Mich. 

Cleveland provider earns HIMSS Davies Award

The MetroHealth System of Cleveland, Ohio has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient.  

CHIME responds to MU announcement

CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell has issued a response to the news from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt that the Meaningful Use (MU) program will come to an end this year.

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Slavitt: CMS moving away from MU

With technology in virtually every place that care is provided, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to "a new regime culminating with [the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA)]," said Andy Slavitt, CMS acting director, speaking at the 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

DeSalvo, Savage address HIPAA guidance for patient access

Patient access to their helath information is guaranteed by HIPAA and is a "fundamental component of a high quaity, person-centered health system," according to a post on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's blog. 

AMA launches Silicon Valley company to grow innovation footprint

The American Medical Association (AMA) has announced a $15 million investment to become founding partner of a healthcare innovation company, called Health2047, that will conduct rapid exploration of innovative solutions to the biggest challenges facing the nation’s 1.1 million physicians and the patients they serve.

Missing flash drive affects 29K in Indiana

A missing flash drive is at the center of a recent data breach, potentially impacting 29,000 patients in Indiana. 

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HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.

Philips is recalling the software associated with its Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices after certain high-risk ECG events were never routed to trained cardiology technicians as intended. The issue, which lasted for two years, has been linked to more than 100 injuries. 

Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, detailed a new advocacy group focused on improving EP reimbursements, patient care and access. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu," he said.