CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW, has partnered with MedAxiom, a cardiology practice-based networking resource, to provide CDW Healthcare with access to MedAxioms knowledge base of cardiology practices along with benchmarking and survey data.

As healthcare reform efforts and other factors shift more financial responsibility to healthcare providers, organizations and departments are turning to business intelligence to bolster their financial decisions, which can become patient care issues as well. The regulatory heat is also on, in the form of increased attention to quality improvement efforts, pay-for-performance and cost reporting initiatives, making business intelligence essential for an organizations fiscal health.

T-System, a hospital emergency department (ED) IT software company, has introduced DigitalShare to integrate digital technology with paper documentation for the ED.

In July, CMS published the final rule for Stage 1 of meaningful use requirements. All the programs will begin in 2011 and many healthcare CIOs have a new task to add to their already crammed schedules: Rallying their physicians to come into compliance sooner rather than later. CMIO spoke with three CIOs about their evolving role in practice management in this new era of meaningful use.

You Have 10 Minutes Two dozen CMIOs, several challenges, lots of big ideas. GO! Participants in the brainstorming breakout session at the AMDIS Physician-Computer Connection Symposium answered questions about clinical documentation, medication reconciliation and using healthcare IT more effectively.

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT has released 20 questions and answers in hopes of alleviating some of the confusion surrounding meaningful use of EHRs. The organization chose to answer questions that are indeed frequently asked at presentations, in offices and in conference rooms.

N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York City reported that personal information, including names and clinical data for approximately 6,800 patients was accessible when the information was inadvertently exposed on a web page. 

Angel Medical Systems has received a CE mark for its AngelMed Guardian System, an implantable warning system used to detect coronary occlusions from thrombotic events such as plaque ruptures, before symptom onset.