Accenture has landed a seven-year contract with Stanford Hospital & Clinics, part of the Stanford University Medical Clinic in Stanford, Calif., for a connected health technology initiative.

Caspio has made available new chart applications to create visual web-based charts and dashboards for any database and assist users' understanding of large data sets.

No enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor overwhelmingly satisfies clients more than the others, but with so few optionsand none performing wellmigrating to a new vendor may not be worth the cost, according to a report published Aug. 11 by market research firm KLAS.

To make a muddled emergency department system more transparent and better report on patient satisfaction and performance indicators, staff at the Hospital of Central Connecticut implemented a business intelligence model to simplify workflow and increase doctor to patient time, said Jeff A. Finkelstein, MD, chief of emergency medicine during a presentation at the HIMSS virtual conference expo June 9.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors has selected Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, as the new editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Siemens Healthcare will begin deploying its new Soarian AIM [Agile Implementation Methodology], at all future Soarian Health Information System installations.

Unlike most segments of health IT, which are dominated by a handful of healthcare-focused vendors, the enterprise business intelligence technologies deployed at hospitals are more likely to come from general software companies like SAP and IBM, according to a report from healthcare research firm KLAS.

Targeted deployment of health analytics, or business intelligence applications, could improve patient outcomes, increase safety, enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs of healthcare, according to an article in the April edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.