Healthcare IT News
Bonnie Cassidy, vice president of HIM product management at Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed and the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sat down with Healthcare IT News at AHIMA's 82nd annual convention and exhibit to talk about the importance of the health information management profession, and her vision for the future.
In a move that will broaden its identity verification offerings, Equifax, the credit reporting and business information company, announced Monday that it has acquired Anakam, a maker of large-scale, software-based, multi-factor authentication solutions for hospitals, HIEs and e-prescribing, among others.
Indicators are that sales of ambulatory electronic health records are sizzling, driven mostly by the prospect of federal incentives for the adoption and meaningful use of the technology.
Novo Nordisk, a healthcare company with a focus on diabetes care, announced the availability of NovoDose – the first-ever mobile insulin-dosing guide for physicians to look up dosing guidelines and blood glucose goals for their patients with diabetes.
Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine has reduced the need for patient emergency room usage by more than 10 percent over the past year. The Rhode Island practice used McKesson's Practice Partner electronic health record solution to improve the health of chronically ill patients.
Policymakers should increase their sense of urgency to stop the global spread of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes that threaten the health and economies of industrialized and developing nations alike, Emory University global health researchers say.
The new California Telehealth Network, a statewide, medical-grade broadband system for improving healthcare access and emergency services, will receive a $9 million federal grant and additional $5 million in matching funds from some prominent California organizations.
William F. Jessee, MD, President and CEO, MGMA
Smartphones, telephones such as the iPhone or Blackberry that can run programs and connect to the Internet in addition to their more mundane uses, are increasingly being used as venues for healthcare information technology.
Alan Dowling, CEO of AHIMA, Formerly President of Global Health Associates, LLC. Has served as an adjunct professor of information systems at Case Western Reserve University.