Riverain Medical has established a new board of advisors, made up radiology, oncology and hospital administration professionals who will oversee product development and improvement for its advanced visualization technologies.

Faster and more widely available internet access has improved lives in many ways but healthcare is lagging behind, considering the potential benefits of chronic disease management coupled with internet usage, according to an article in the fourth-quarter edition of International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics.

Medical terminology management company Health Language has added a procedure category to its provider friendly terminology code set that includes 40,000 synonyms, abbreviations and colloquial expressions, which are commonly used by healthcare professionals when documenting or searching for patient data.

EDIMS, a provider of emergency department information systems (EDIS) for hospitals, has announced that EDIMS 2.6, its emergency department EHR, has been certified as an EHR Module by the Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT), an ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Body.

Healthcare professionals and providers will purchase new IT products and systems in core areas such as PCs, printers, phone systems and networking equipment, with some consumer electronics devices mixed in, according to new research from CompTIA.

A look at the health information exchange (HIE) news over the past month shows increasing activity around the U.S. as more providers, vendors and statewide systems light up new areas and more health data is exchanged. This months interviews with NoVaRHIO officials and the CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative highlight ways that HIE can enable better communication among ED staff, and the Nationwide Health Information Networks potential role in disease management.

NoVaRHIO, the Northern Virginia Regional Health information Organization, launched a pilot project at the end of August, exchanging information among emergency department physicianswhere such exchange is arguably the most problematic.

The Nationwide Healthcare Information Network (NHIN) framework will provide an opportunity to greatly expand disease management efforts, said Aaron Seib, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, a Washington, D.C.-based public-private organization advocating the adoption of an interoperable, nationwide health information system. Seib spoke with CMIO recently about the potentials of such a system, including near-real time delivery of more and better clinical data.