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.

As investments in IT increase at the nations healthcare organizations, CIOs will have their hands full in managing the speed of technological change.

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.

El Centro Regional Medical Center and the Childrens Institute of Pittsburgh have contracted to implement Siemens Soarian web-based health information systems (HIS), and Soarian recently went live at Faith Regional Health Services.

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has introduced an online accreditation program, the ACRedit application system, which offers CT accreditation in about 63 days, half the previous time required for accreditation.

Healthcare IT company Sectra is adapting its secure voice communication products to the Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) standard and by spring 2011, its Tiger and Panthon telephony products will support SCIP.