Wolters Kluwer Health, a developer of information and business intelligence systems, has entered into an agreement to acquire Health Language, a medical terminology management company.

A single cardiology vendor can’t provide the integration across a platform that providers desire, with some vendors offering better modules than functionality and vice versa. However, some vendors do stand above the rest, according to an October performance report published by market researcher KLAS.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has selected new tools that help patients better manage and access information in their EHRs as challenge winners. The winners were named during the Health 2.0 Sixth Annual Fall Conference in San Francisco, Oct. 12.

InterSystems and eHealth Technologies have partnered to provide access to images such as x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds via InterSystems' HealthShare informatics platform, which is currently used by hospitals, integrated delivery networks and health information exchanges.

Medical informatics is more than health IT. The growth of educational informatics programs and omnipresence of health IT tools have led to a misunderstanding of who informaticists are and what they do, according to a perspective published online Oct. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Cerner and Nuance Communications have signed an expanded agreement in which Cerner will embed Nuance’s cloud-based medical voice recognition into its full portfolio of mobile EHR technologies.

HealthTech Holdings has acquired integrated perioperative solutions developer, Acuitec.

CHICAGO--Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer of the United States from 2009 until earlier this year, spoke about harnessing the power of technology during the final talk of the 84th American Health Information Management Association Convention & Exhibit.