Monday, March 1, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is reached the decade milestone. A vision of a connected and interoperable healthcare infrastructure is one of the most significant healthcare industry efforts of the 21st century. Since 1998, IHE functioning as an international consortium of healthcare professional organizations and industry, has worked collaboratively to foster adoption of standards-based solutions to information sharing in healthcare worldwide.

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM 

Monday, March 1, 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM This session will explore the experiences of several health plans leveraging administrative transactions to deliver clinical data. Provider response, obstacles, impact on quality and opportunities for health information exchanges will be evaluated and discussed.

Sunday, February 28, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Learn and discuss how to leverage the approved HITSP Remote Monitoring specifications to improve patient care. When done properly, these investments also will facilitate more reliable, safe, cost-effective, and secure interoperable health data collection, sharing, and decision support for EHR, EMR PHR, health information exchange and health Internet applications.

Saturday, February 27, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PMPatient-centric, longitudinal and automated quality measurement is an essential component of meaningful use. This requires the development of standardized quality data sets and work flows that enable automation of quality measures through electronic health records. This session will explore national priorities and goals related to meaningful use of EHR data for purposes of quality measurement and performance improvement. The presenter will review the requirements for enabling automated quality measurement as a by-product of EHR data capture. Examples showing how standardized quality data sets can enable the power of the EHR in quality measurement will be presented.

While finalizing the definition for meaningful use remains a contentious and sometimes unclear issue for many providers, there is a unified vision of using health IT systems for better communication and sharing of data within healthcare facilities and between varied provider settings.

In a post-2015 era, both technology and infrastructure need to be transformed across ambulatory healthcare settings large and small, according to John Blair III, MD, president of Taconic IPA in Fishkill, N.Y., who made this presentation today at HIMSS10 in Atlanta.

iCAD has reported steady profits for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, but it wasnt enough to put the company into the black for the year, which ended Dec. 31.