Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Chalk one up for the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase. Come 2013, the showcase, a popular draw at the Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference, will be on display and working on all things interoperable year-round in a new showroom in Nashville.
In the year 2010 doctors should be looking at technologies that could help boost their communication with their patients, experts told Healthcare IT News in January.
In July, Hospital CIOs across the country reviewed the final rule on meaningful use of health IT with some relief that the government had given up its all-or-nothing approach.
Federal officials released the final rule on meaningful use July 13 - setting the criteria for physicians and hospitals to qualify for thousands of dollars in stimulus funding incentives for the adoption of electronic health records.
IBM and American Well announced Wednesday an expanded partnership to further embed security into the latter's online care system in an effort to further safeguard patient information that is collected and exchanged as part of live Web-based consultations with healthcare providers.
Three in five Americans with chronic disease say using a home medical device would improve their health, according to a new survey.
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has reported clinical and administrative success with CSC's Clinical Information Portal. The trust completed a proof of concept (PoC) evaluation of the portal as an alternative to paper case notes.
A survey by Black Book Rankings, a division of the market research firm Brown-Wilson Group, ranks the top EMR vendors for 2011 based on key performance indicators including meaningful use.
The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (VCUMC) in Richmond has launched new cloud-based technology for sharing radiology imaging and reports, according to DR Systems.
Right people, right processes, right change management and right technology - these are the "four buckets" that one expert says her list of top 10 internal factors for implementing an EHR fall into. Without all the components, she says, it is very difficult for organizations to succeed.