Scribe Healthcare Technologies has unveiled Direct2UScribe, a speech recognition tool that leverages M*Modal technology to allows users to send documents to dictating physicians.

TeleHealth Services, patient education software provider, has extended its partnership with St. Vincents HealthCare to assist the hospitals patient education initiatives.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will conduct a one-year study aimed at ensuring that health IT will achieve its full potential for improving patient safety in healthcare, under a $989,000 contract announced by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

Lehigh Valley Health Network has selected QuadraMeds Quantim computer-assisted coding system to help prepare for the transition to ICD-10.

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.