The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) has accredited the first vendors through the Direct Trust Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP), which certifies vendors in best practices using Direct Project protocols for interoperable, secure messaging over the internet, Debra Hopkinson, EHNAC operations vice president, confirmed to Clinical Innovation + Technology.

Santa Rosa, CA, May 20, 2013 -- A pioneer and leading provider of Population Health and Business Intelligence solutions, i2i Systems announced today that the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning Southcentral Foundation (SCF) selected i2iTracks as their population management solution. SCF will utilize i2iTracks to help them meet their Meaningful Use (MU), Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) and Uniform Data System (UDS) requirements – a welcomed solution to managing the demands associated with growing population data.

LEXINGTON, Mass.-- Imprivata®, a leading global provider of healthcare IT security solutions, today announced the availability of a new report from HIMSS Analytics that outlines the data access and workflow efficiency challenges Canadian hospitals face as they continue to implement electronic health record (EHR) systems. Titled “Streamlining Workflows and Access to Patient Data in Canadian Hospitals,” the study, commissioned by Imprivata, specifies how EHR adoption can impact workflow efficiency and data access, and identifies single sign-on (SSO) technology as one of the solutions to streamline access to clinical systems and patient information. Imprivata is available to discuss the findings of this study and to demonstrate the features and benefits of Imprivata OneSign® in booth #108 during e-Health 2013 Conference (May 26-29, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).

A five-stage Accountable Care Maturity Model from IDC Health Insights is designed to help healthcare organizations gauge where they are in the process and make strategic decisions about business and IT initiatives.

“Population health management, a model designed to maximize the health and minimize the cost of caring for a defined population, requires clinical analytics to improve the quality of care and reduce avoidable hospital admissions,” according to a new report released by the Institute of Health Technology Transformation. "Analytics: The Nervous System of IT-Enabled Healthcare" covers how accountable care organizations (ACOs) will need good understanding of their costs in order to manage financial risk, how they can improve upon data collection and how to optimize analytics.

LONDON, May 15, 2013 -- Pharma IQ is pleased to announce the release of a brand new infographic summary of the results from an industry survey conducted earlier this year.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—“Behavior change is happening at many different levels but the lack of continuum of care means we don’t connect these pieces together,” said Rajni Aneja, MD, MBA, strategic executive and clinical transformation leader for Humana, speaking May 7 at the Boston Health IT Summit hosted by the Institute of Health Technology Transformation.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Storage is coming down in price but it may be premature to move healthcare data to the cloud. That was the consensus during a May 7 panel discussion on managing patient data during the Boston Health IT Summit hosted by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.