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.

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Go Direct for Improved & Secure Interoperability Between EHRs

President & CEO of DirectTrust, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, shares how Direct messaging is driving interoperability and privacy of protected health information.

Optimizing Alerts: The Cornerstone of HIE

Alert notifications are proving their worth with improved care coordination and reduced costs.

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About 400 physicians pass clinical informatics subspecialty board exam

Approximately 400 physicians passed the inaugural American Board of Preventive Medicine board certification examination for the clinical informatics specialty, which took place in October 2013.

Digital Assent Joins Greenway Medical Technologies Online Marketplace

ATLANTA, Dec. 16, 2013-- Digital Assent, the leading provider of real-time patient satisfaction surveys and online reputation marketing solutions for the United States healthcare market, today announced it has joined the Greenway Medical Technologies online Marketplace of value-added partners for users of Greenway's integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solutions.

Sevocity EHR Announces PDX (Provider Patient Data Exchange)

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 17, 2013-- Sevocity, a division of Conceptual MindWorks, Inc. (CMI), today announced PDX ™ (Provider Patient Data Exchange) for Sevocity Electronic Health Records (EHR) customers.

Providers look to vendors to deliver functionality

Providers are more concerned with vendors’ ability to deliver functionality than technology differentiation, according to a study by KLAS Research.

Integrating privacy, security for better compliance

Moving the privacy and security of healthcare function from the IT department to the compliance team may be a good move for healthcare organizations, according to Phil Curran, chief information security and privacy officer for Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J. Curran spoke during a Dec. 17 webinar on integrating privacy and security presented by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.

VA St. Louis Health Care System to Install LiveData PeriOp Manager, With DSS Integration to VistA Electronic Health Record System

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--LiveData, Inc. today announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System in St. Louis has purchased LiveData PeriOp Manager, the company’s operational intelligence solution for the perioperative setting. LiveData and partner Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS) will fully integrate PeriOp Manager with the VA St. Louis Health Care System’s VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) electronic health record (EHR), enabling patient information and case workflow to be viewed and managed by the whole perioperative team.

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