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 systems, artificial 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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ONC, Health 2.0 offer new innovation challenge

Health 2.0, in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), has launched a new innovation competition sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) titled, "Using Public Data for Cancer Prevention and Control: From Innovation to Impact."

The real value of HIEs

Analysis of the eHealth Initiatives 2011 Report on HIE: The Changing Landscape showed some encouraging signs, said HIE panelists Laura Kolkman, President of Mosaica Partners, and Camilla Hull-Brown, Principal and Founder, Strategies for Tomorrow, during a presentation last week.

Report calls for health IT to boost care in rural areas

Rural Americans experience more chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease than urban and suburban residents and have greater difficulties accessing high-quality care, according to a report from the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization.

HIMSS Analytics: After dip, hospital IT budgets rise again

The economic recession has significantly affected a normally recession-resistant medical industry, stated a report from HIMSS Analytics. However, results from the first quarter of 2011 indicate that IT budgets might be adjusting back to pre-recession levels.

Shimadzu garners top rank in KLAS digital x-ray report

Shimadzu Medical Systems' Radspeed maintained the top ranking for the second year among digital x-ray developers, according to a recent KLAS report, "Digital X-ray 2011: An Untethered Market," but the company was not alone in garnering strong scores. Fujifilm Medical Systems took second place by a slim margin, the survey found, and other vendors, including Canon Medical Systems, Carestream Health and Viztek, received overall performance scores of more than 90 percent.

Memphis health org selects RelayHealth for enterprise HIE

Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care has selected business integration developer RelayHealth to establish an enterprise health information exchange (HIE) to improve care coordination in three states.

AR: Temporal subtraction improves chest x-ray CAD

An early trial of a CAD program improved all 12 participating radiologists detection of lung nodules on x-ray, while averaging 2.6 false-positives per image, offering potentially promising results for the temporal subtraction method for CAD, according to a study published in the August issue of Academic Radiology.

GE's x-ray leadership moving to China

GE Healthcare plans to transition its x-ray leadership team to new global headquarters in Beijing.

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