Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Since the beginning of 2010 there has been a series of acquisitions in healthcare IT market, which recently culminated in one of the largest, IBM’s acquisition of Initiate.

On Feb. 3, IBM announced that it will acquire leading healthcare Master Data Management vendor Initiate for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare IT sector is white hot right now, so it is likely IBM paid a pretty penny for Initiate.

Lawson is adding integration to its applications, with the goal of moving its business intelligence solutions deeper into the healthcare landscape.

Competition and lost revenue are keeping communities from participating in health information exchanges, panelists told attendees at the Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Conference.

The University Medical Center at Princeton is providing an interoperable electronic health record to its physician clinics.

The "hand of thoughtful policy" created the proposed criteria for meaningful use, according to David J. Brailer, MD, former healthcare IT czar for the Office of the National Coordinator.

Business intelligence provider Lawson Software is branching out into more areas of the healthcare setting with the acquisition of Healthvision.