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.

Michiana Health Information Network goes Direct

The Michiana Health Information Network has implemented the Direct project, an initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aimed at simplifying the way patients and providers exchange health information electronically.

Privacy & security: Enforcement activities have 'increased dramatically' (Part 1 of 2)

Because identity theft is one of the fastest growing crimes, healthcare privacy and security enforcement activities have increased dramatically over the last two years, Linn Foster Freedman, JD, an attorney with Nixon Peabody in Providence, R.I., said during a program presented by the Rhode Island Quality Institute.

Three healthcare systems join CMS medical home pilot

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that three healthcare systems are joining 16 independent practices in the Independence at Home Demonstration, an initiative to provide home-based primary care to chronically ill patients with the goal of reducing hospitalizations and healthcare costs.

Ariz. practice taps Merge

SimonMed Imaging, an outpatient physician imaging practice, will deploy Merge's radiology systems along with iConnect Access and iConnect VNA.

Mass. moves to statewide HIE with first-of-its-kind CMS funding

With $16.9 million in funding approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Massachusetts is moving forward with a statewide health information exchange (HIE).

Ind. health system taps Merge for image access

Franciscan Alliance has selected Merge Healthcare's iConnect Access to image-enable its EMR and provide access to radiology and cardiology images and information across its network of 13 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois.

VA joins forces with N.Y. HIE

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is connecting its Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record Health Communities program to HEALTHeLINK, a health information exchange (HIE) that is part of the Western New York Beacon Community.

Carestream Vue RIS earns MU certification

Carestream Vue RIS  v. 11 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a complete EHR on July 27 by the Certification Commission for Health Information in accordance with the applicable eligible provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that outlines some of the organization’s central priorities and concerns. 

One product is being pulled from the market, and the other is receiving updated instructions for use.

If the Trump administration continues taking a laissez-faire stance toward AI—including AI used in healthcare—why not let the states go it alone on regulating the technology?