University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing $100 million over five years into a data warehouse with multiple analytics applications, along with partners Oracle, IBM, Informatica and dbMotion.

CHICAGO--Wil Yu, senior advisor on innovation for the city and county of San Francisco and former special assistant, innovations at the Office of the National Coordinator of HIT, urged his audience at the 84th Convention & Exhibit of the American Health Information Management Association to “think through a lens of innovation.”

The FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) system has developed in fits and starts since becoming law back in 2007, but the intervals of inactivity should shorten if not cease altogether on Nov. 7.

Walking into a hospital often means subjecting oneself to auditory overload. Beeps from the left and chirps from the right don’t only prevent patients from getting the rest they need, these annoying alarms deliver providers the clinical equivalent of junk mail when they should only send top priority information.

Confronting real or exaggerated budget competition from IT, designated ‘tech assessors’ take the guesswork and emotion out of medical equipment buying decisions.

The road to successful accountable care might be relatively short when it comes to building the necessary infrastructure. It’s the culture change that takes time.

Whenever I hear the term “end user,” I can’t help but picture syringes on a sidewalk. I remember a past job where corporate IT would send out server updates and such to the satellite offices addressing recipients even more starkly: “Dear Users …”

Nuance Communications signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quantim, the health information management business of QuadraMed, a provider of health IT solutions.