Mike Miliard
Cerner is partnering with the Ottawa Hospital and two other members of the Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA) - the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Cornwall Community Hospital - to help implement an enhanced automated lab system that will connect the three laboratories to local hospitals.
The Association of Alexandria Radiologists has chosen McKesson's Revenue Management Solutions for radiology billing and practice management.
BridgeHead Software and Dell have collaborated on a project that offers hospitals a new way to store their medical and administrative data in a centralized repository.
With the market for healthcare IT-related products growing faster than ever and evolving constantly, it can be a dizzying task to keep track of what's out there.
"The IT aspect of medical marijuana is only just being approached," says John Lee, founder of Boyes Hot Springs, Calif.-based Plainview Systems, a new online service that allows qualified patients to "create virtual collectives and, through those collectives, buy, sell and trade marijuana goods, products and services."
Four months after Intuit, the maker of small business-focused financial software, announced its acquisition of Medfusion, a maker of front- and back-office software for improving patient-to-provider communications, the merger has completed, with Intuit's Quicken Health Group combining with Medfusion to become Intuit Health.
With three big purchases in less than a month, Ingenix - the IT arm of the payer UnitedHealth - continues to bolster itself for a fast-changing healthcare environment.
There will be no shortage of hot-button discussion topics at the 82nd annual convention and exhibition of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Orlando from Sept. 25-30.
The tiny state of Rhode Island is in many ways the perfect place for proving efficacy and interoperability of various healthcare information technologies. Its modest size makes it especially well suited to test-run the exchange of medical information.
Carestream Health has bolstered itself with a broad new portfolio of conventional and digital X-ray technologies, thanks to its acquisition of Ronkonkoma, N.Y.-based Quantum Medical Imaging, a privately-held manufacturer of X-ray systems used by hospitals, imaging centers and health clinics.