Hielix, a leading innovator of Health Information Exchange (HIE) solutions, announced that the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT has approved the Strategic and Operational Plan (SOP) for the HIE for the State of Mississippi. The SOP developed by Hielix along with partners Apeni...

Central Illinois Health Information Exchange (CIHIE), an affiliate to the non-profit healthcare organization; Quality Quest for Health of Illinois, announced that it has selected Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), a leading innovator of HIE solutions, as its health information exchange vend...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that the comment period for the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011 – 2015 has been extended to Friday, May 6, 11:59 p.m. (Eastern). Earlier in March, ONC announced an open public comment period on the S...

Amagine Inc., a subsidiary of the American Medical Association (AMA), made its  health information technology (health IT) solutions platform, AMAGINE, available to physicians nationwide. The new platform provides physicians with a single point of access to more than 20 health IT solutions, knowl...

Capital Group Holdings Inc. announced that the telemedicine platform they were working on will be launched under the OneHealthPass (OHP) brand. OneHealthPass is a complete telemedicine offering of products and services delivered via a centralized platform built using open-source architecture. O...

While I haven’t been covering health IT issues for very long, it doesn’t take long to find out that one of the hottest topics in health IT today is Meaningful Use. Right near the top of the list of issues in any discussion of meaningful use is frustration with the continuing changes to the crite...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the start of an open public comment period on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2011-2015 (“the Plan”). The Plan demonstrates ONC’s strategy, developed in collaboration with other federal partner...

MEDecision Inc., a leading provider of collaborative health management solutions, together with Health Language Inc. (HLI), a medical terminology management company, revealed that they have entered into an agreement that will enable MEDecision to help its healthcare payer and provider customers me...

Richard Alvarez to deliver keynote at HIMSS Middle East Conference about benefits of electronic health records in Saudi hospitals Richard Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s National Health IT Program, Health Infoway, has been a catalyst for accelerating the development of ...

Revision: The previously published copy of this article posted Mar. 10, 2011 contained an error. The copy incorrectly made a comparison between market share and mindshare, indicating that Agfa was losing in terms of mindshare. This is incorrect. The data did not show any trend with regard to mindsha...