Mike Miliard
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and GE Healthcare have announced that their joint imaging venture, Omnyx, is starting clinical tests of a digital platform that's expected to help transform the 125-year-old practice of pathologists using glass slides.
The California Association of Physicians Groups (CAPG) has enlisted Health Access Solutions to help with its accountable care efforts - bringing the company's web-based multidisciplinary care coordination platform to more than 150 physician groups and nearly 15 million patients.
As the Badger State prepares to launch its health information exchange in 2011, Wisconsin officials have designated the Wisconsin State Health Information Network (WISHIN) as the exchange’s governing organization.
With its investment in CardioNexus Corporation, a portfolio company of Houston's Fairway Medical Technologies, Panasonic Corporation of North America has signaled its plans to become a player in the increasingly important field of personalized preventive medicine.
In a move that will broaden its reach in the hospital communications market – and, ideally, save lives – Vocera, which develops point of care communications solutions, has acquired two companies, Clinical Health Communications and Integrated Voice Solutions.
The United States Armed Forces spent some significant money with three big vendors this October, adding to and improving its healthcare IT capabilities.
"We were hearing a lot of, 'OK, I get that Covisint will help deliver the data back and forth, but what do we do with it? How can we change it into information that will help the physician make better decisions?’"
Katie Carolan, director of operations at Baltimore-based Health Record Services (HRS), spends a lot of time giving presentations at state American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) shows and talking to her own clients about the looming switch to ICD-10. How prepared are people to meet the October 2013 deadline?
Vangent, Inc., a provider of information management and strategic business process technology, has been awarded a $15.6 million contract by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.
"Is HITECH working?" That was the question posed by Vince Kuraitis, principal of Better Health Technologies, at the Mobile Health Expo in Las Vegas on Wednesday.