Healthcare IT
At the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, announced plans to accelerate health information exchange in the the U.S.
"Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, we are improving the way care is delivered while lowering costs," said Tavenner in a statement. "We are already seeing benefits,
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HHS Makes Plans to Speed Data Exchange
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At the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, announced plans to accelerate health information exchange in the the U.S.
"Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, we are improving the way care is delivered while lowering costs," said Tavenner in a statement. "We are already seeing benefits,
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Top (HIT) Companies Announce Ground Breaking Alliance …
New Orleans, March 4, 2013 – Top healthcare information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced today the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned
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Siemens Supports AXrEM’s Call for Clear Use of …
AXrEM, the Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy & Care, which represents all major medical imaging manufacturers active in the UK, recently published a statement highlighting its concern about the potential
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Safety Demands Better Device Integration…
Medical devices and health IT systems are very different species, each with their own strengths and vulnerabilities. But in an increasingly wired healthcare industry, they're necessarily becoming more and more intertwined.
At the day-long
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Rocky Road Ahead for BI
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Clinical and business intelligence, often called BI, for short, is the “hottest space in healthcare IT, and it’s going to be a free-for-all,” Dave Garets, warned a standing-room-only audience at the Clinical and Business Intelligence Symposium
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CB Gets Patient 'Insight' via App…
An ‘Insight Dashboard’ displaying patient experience data is being developed for use by the NHS Commissioning Board from April.
A paper being presented by national director of patients and information Tim Kelsey to an NHS CB meeting today, says
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HIT can create barriers for underserved populations…
While health information technology has the potential to improve care, it also erect barriers to care for marginalized and underserved populations, according to a new paper from a coalition of advocacy organizations. The report was created
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5 CIOs Imagine Health IT in 10 Years…
Each year near the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition, CHIME and HIMSS together name a CIO of the Year, and each year Healthcare IT News interviews the winner about the biggest challenges faced, the changing role of the CIO, and we also ask him
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New Report, Policy Recommendations Delivered at White …
The use of health IT could not only help to improve the quality of care, but also eliminate disparities in care among communities of color, according to a new report released today at a White House Summit hosted by the Office of the National
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Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues for 2013…
Healthcare reform, accountable care organizations, readmissions and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today's healthcare leaders, according to a new report from ECRI Institute, a non-profit evidence-based practice
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Info Centre to Run DMIC
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New Data Management Integration Centres, being developed within the NHS Commissioning Board, will have to become part of the Health and Social Care Information Centre to operate legally.
Staff, assets and liabilities of the centres will have to be
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Trusts Could Lose Contracts Without EPR…
The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS hospital trusts.New guidance outlining ‘severe’ financial consequences, including loss of contracts, for NHS
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FDA Approves Medtronic’s MRI-Friendly Pacemaker…
The FDA has approved the Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system, a second-generation pacemaker designed for use with MRI machines, according to device maker Medtronic.
Advisa MRI was specifically tested and approved for use as labeled with MRI
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AHIMA IDs Clinical Documentation Challenges in EHRs…
Three clinical documentation and record management challenges in electronic health record systems were identified by the American Health Information Management Association at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's HIT Policy
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Selenia Dimensions Breast Tomosynthesis from Hologic…
The Selenia Dimensions system is the only one:
That when combined with digital mammography, has been shown to increase cancer detection by 27% and increase invasive cancer detection by 40%.
That had a 15% reduction in pre-arbitration false
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eHealth Initiative Unveils First Health IT Cancer …
The eHealth Initiative (eHI) has unveiled its first-ever Health IT Cancer Resources Guide, a comprehensive overview of the digital tools and technologies available today that help patients and their families, caregivers and support networks
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Imaging Technologies Transformed By New Modeling …
Researchers are improving the performance of technologies ranging from medical CT scanners to digital cameras using a system of models to extract specific information from huge collections of data and then reconstructing images like a jigsaw
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British Hospital Consortium Opts for Sectra’s …
The IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed a contract in the UK to supply the medical imaging IT system, Sectra PACS, to the Salisbury, Wight and South Hampshire Domain NHS Trust (SWASH) consortium. The contract runs for
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New Claron Nil App for BlackBerry 10 Showcasing at …
Anytime, Anywhere Medical Image Viewing App Now Available for BlackBerry 10 Smartphones
February 4, 2013, Toronto—Claron Technology has been invited to showcase its new BlackBerry® 10 app for the Nil family of medical imaging viewers at
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King Khalid University Hospital Selects Health …
University Hospital in Riyadh pioneers use of Datix IT solution in Saudi teaching hospitals to deliver quality patient services and secure the highest accreditation
Riyadh and London – 8 January 2013: Health Matrix, a leader Healthcare IT
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Health 2.0 Middle East – Personal/Public Health: …
Hippocrates, writing circa 400 BC, said that one’s health depends on the air one breathes, the water one drinks, and the environment in which one lives. Place matters in health! An outbreak of cholera in the Soho district of London in 1854 killed
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