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Three Memorial Hermann Healthcare System hospitals in Houston have achieved Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, a level officials recognize as demonstrating significant advancement in IT capabilities.
ScImage, an enterprise imaging and informatics company, has partnered with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems to release a universal medical image integration module that provides NextGen users simultaneous access to patient-centric and study-centric images.
Identity management in healthcare was a hot topic at the Smart Card Alliance 9th Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference held last week in Washington. Controlling access to healthcare records, particularly when it comes to consent, was an issue recognized by experts as requiring more innovation.
The U.S. handheld ultrasound market is expected to exceed $1.2 billion by 2016 due to technological advances and improvements in three and four-dimensional capabilities by some of the major manufacturers including SonoSite, GE and Siemens, according to a new report by market research firm iData Research.
BridgeFront, a company that provides online education for healthcare, government, business and education, and OCHIN, an Oregon-based health IT service organization for community-based clinics, together will develop a library of more than 50 online courses to address the challenges of complying with meaningful use criteria.
There are some expert events of the European eHealth community that have never really made it into the media spotlight. Despite this, many of them still deserve to be recognized for their contribution in helping advance the continent's eHealth infrastructure. The annual Symposium of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) is such an event. It kicked off today in Brussels at the headquarters of the Committee of the Regions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.
CMS Web site will enable providers who have been approved for meeting meaningful use requirements to see their incentive payment status.
CMS will add patient safety measures to its Hospital Compare Web site and assess how well consumers understand the information on the site.
Royal Philips Electronics has announced a new service that provides Web-based remote monitoring follow-up services for patients with pacemakers. The new service, which was made available to cardiology practices in beta in August, is the first large-scale service of its kind in the United States.