Wolters Kluwer Health has signed an agreement with Meditech to offer integration between Meditech version 5.64 (Client/Server and Magic) and ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support.

In the wake of a data breach impacting almost 800,000 Utah residents, the state has begun a multi-pronged response including the resignation of the states chief technology officer (CTO).

National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, said his office has created two new officesthe Office of the Chief Medical Officer and the Office of Consumer eHealth.

Fun may just become a new driver for the healthcare industrys interoperability efforts. Gamification, using game design techniques to enhance non-game experiences, is common in other industries but relatively new to healthcare.

 Get ready to add gamification to your latest buzzword toolkit. Researchers from Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Techna Institute, University Health Network in Toronto, found that using an mHealth diabetes application (app) with the use of gamification incentives showed an improvement in the frequency of blood glucose monitoring in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.

Although a meta-analysis indicated that magnetic resonance arthrography marginally outperformed MRI in the diagnosis of triangular fibrocartilaginous complex tears, the procedure may not be justified for all patients with suspected tears, according to a study published in the May issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

BOSTONNo device or lead failures or patient deaths have occurred among 454 patients with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators undergoing MRI scans as part of The MagnaSafe Registry, according to a presentation May 9 at the Heart Rhythm Society's 33rd annual scientific sessions.

Despite worlds of potential, sales of Microsoft's Amalga have been limited and its overall KLAS performance score has dropped 14 points in the last two years, from 84.2 to 69.9, revealing a split personality in customer opinions, the market research firm KLAS found in its newest survey.