End-user acceptance is critical for the success of bar coded medication administration (BCMA) and other technologies, according to an article published June 3 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Among this weeks most-read CMIO news stories was a story about the increase in job postings for healthcare informatics, which are up 36 percent from 2007 to 2011, compared with a 9 percent growth in all healthcare postings and 6 percent increase in all U.S. jobs.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.The impetus was toward patient safetywith special emphasis on reducing errors in drug prescriptionswhen Childrens National Medical Center moved to integrate its medical devices with its EMR a few years ago. The hospitals director of biomedical engineering, Jeff Hooper, MS, shared lessons learned from the project in a June 3 session at the 2012 annual conference of AAMI, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation.

Agfa HealthCare has selected Dell of Round Rock, Texas, to host its cloud clinical archive portfolio, including the Imaging Clinical Information System platform.

Planning on developing an accountable care organization (ACO)? Not so fast. According to a viewpoint article published June 6 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, numerous federal and state laws, regulations and public policies could slow down or bar the formation of ACOs.

Communications and IT company Harris has been awarded a two-year, $19 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information and Technology to create a wireless network infrastructure for its medical centers nationwide.

CHARLOTTE, N.C.Oklahoma Heart Hospital, a two-hospital, 60 clinic provider based in Oklahoma City, is not your average hospital. In fact, it touts five-star hotel quality-like customer service, while utilizing mobile devices to augment alerts related to the monitoring of patientswhich may be one of the reasons the facility received the Healthcares Most Wired award in 2011.

Jonathan A. Handler, MD, has joined clinical documentation services and speech recognition technology developer M*Modal as CMIO, a new position at the company.