Amicas has partnered with Healthinc of Sydney, Australia, to bring Amicas PACS, Amicas Reach and Amicas RadStream to the Australian market.

Kaiser Permanente has improved the heart attack survival rate for its members in Colorado through a program that links coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists, with an EHR and advanced clinical care registry.

It was the height of the Great Depression, a seemingly terrible time to launch Americas first business journalFortune. Or was it? America was wrought with economic crisis and Fortune set out to smartly profile entrepreneurial culture. The crash piqued American business leaders desire to look into the back-offices of entrepreneurs to see what was working and what was not; and to look at government policy and practice to offer insight and truth. Fortune met a need, it answered the call with real-world, intelligent, upscale, objectiveand often brash and criticalarticles for business leaders under siege.

With the emergence of the CMIO position in the mid-1990s, the recognition by the administrative, healthcare information services and, importantly the American medical profession that the role of a senior informatics healthcare executive was vital and integral to the provision of healthcare services was clear.

It might be the biggest thing ever to happen to health information technology: billions of federal dollars to fund adoption and use of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs). But will health IT reduce errors, cut costs, save jobs, allow interoperability among disparate clinical systems, and transform healthcare? Could the greatest cost be the quality of medicine physicians practice?

An inside look at cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) and the myriad data elements that go into the successful integration of cardiology images, lab results, patient histories and hemodynamic monitoring and procedure data to facilitate access to key caregivers at the point of carewherever that may be.

While a recent clinical study found that health IT systems have the potential to reduce deaths by 15 percent, in addition to saving costs, the lead investigator advises that a unified paradigm shift and proper planning across a health system is required to produce effective results and improve patient care.

Swift, optimum clinical decision-making depends on healthcare systems delivering the right information at the right time to the right caregiver. Model systems across the country are exploiting a host of technologies such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic medical records (EMRs), to ensure this better than anyone else while increasing quality, disseminating best practices and decreasing costs. To create comprehensive, intuitive systems, several of the country's most proactive health systems have formed extensive partnerships with health IT vendors to benefit from the vendor's connectivity and software system development knowledge base.