The pace of progress in developing interoperability between medical devices and data destinations is influenced as much by well-articulated demand as by technical capabilityand its up to CMIOs and other beneficiaries of such interoperability to push the issue, said Julian M. Goldman, MD, medical director of the biomedical engineering program at Partners HealthCare System in Boston.

All the same buzz words and terms that affect healthcare in general are impacting advanced visualization specifically. For example, more and more guidelines regarding specific uses of mobile technologies continue to come from regulatory agencies.

Privately insured statin users between 55 and 64 years old in the U.S. paid 400 percent higher costs for the drug than did their counterparts in the U.K. whose drugs were paid through the government, according to a study published in the January issue of the journal Pharmacotherapy. The authors found generics cost substantially less in both countries.

InterSystems informatics software platform, InterSystems HealthShare, has been selected as the technology platform for the Illinois Health Information Exchange (HIE), a contract with an estimated value of $7.25 million.

It's your last chance to participate in the 2012 CMIO Compensation Survey. The survey will close Jan. 6, at 12 pm EST.

AirStrip Technologies has received CE Mark certification for three mobile patient monitoring applications, allowing the San Antonio-based health IT vendor to sell and market those products in Europe and in other countries that recognize the conformity symbol.

Given the considerable, and largely unmitigated, burden of heart failure (HF), the potential for home monitoring to improve the management of patients with HF is substantial, according to authors of a state-of-the-art paper in the Jan. 10  edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Thomson Reuters has shelved plans to sell its healthcare division due to economic conditions that will prevent the company from receiving what the company believes is a fair value for its profitable business.