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.

CDW, Greenway Medical partner for EHR tool

CDW Healthcare and EHR software provider Greenway Medical Technologies have partnered to deliver an EHR utilizing Greenway Medicals PrimeSUITE offering.

Blumenthal issues 20-month checkup at ONC update meeting

During a Dec. 14 overview presentation at the 2010 ONC Update in Washington, D.C., David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health IT at the ONC, urged his audience to consider the progress made in the past 20 months.

Midwestern med center deploys EDIS

Great Plains Regional Medical Center has deployed T SystemEV, the emergency department information system offered by clinical software developer T-System.

N.C. IDN goes live with Proficient Orders

Moses Cone Health System, a N.C.-based integrated delivery network (IDN), went live on access management services developer Proficient Healths Proficient Orders cloud computing software to assist communication with local physicians and lay the groundwork to support health information exchange (HIE).

Health system to install Medicity HIE suite

Nonprofit health system Christus Health will deploy health information exchange (HIE) company Medicity's technology suite to drive HIE infrastructure development across several states - including Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Utah and New Mexico.

RSNA: Outpatient cancer system can help manage side effects

The side effect self-diagnostics system and blog function of a homegrown self-management support system for cancer outpatients allow both patients and medical staff to gain a detailed understanding of the patients side effects, based on a scientific poster presented at the 96th annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago, Nov. 28 to Dec. 3.

ONC names 2 more EHR certification bodies

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has designated two more ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCBs) for EHRs: ICSA Labs, authorized to test and certify complete EHR and EHR modules; and SLI Global Solutions, authorized to test and certify complete EHR and EHR modules.

Alaska eHealth Network to deploy Orion Health HIE

The Alaska eHealth Network has selected health IT services company Orion Health as its primary technology provider for Alaska's statewide health information exchange and will deploy its Health Information Exchange product.

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."

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