Network Infrastructure
Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, is in the process of what officials are calling a "big bang" implementation in overhauling their current IT system.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is partnering with IBM to market UPMC's "smart" hospital rooms nationwide.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced that the VA Medical Center in Indianapolis will partner with the Indiana Health Information Exchange on a pilot to securely exchange electronic health data via the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is in the midst of handling the repercussions of a recent IT infrastructure failure, which coincided with an increase in record requests as students enroll and return to school.
The federal Health IT Policy Committee is backing a plan to build a federal database of business rules that states could use to help determine the eligibility for Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs.
GE Healthcare announced that its Centricity Practice Solution version 9.5 has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and is a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, with additional certification for child health and cardiovascular medicine with advanced reporting.
Humana and athenahealth have announced an alliance, combining Humana's Primary Care Rewards Program with athenahealth's EHR service.
The Singapore Ministry of Health has signed a contract with Accenture to implement the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system, a key enabler of Singapore’s vision toward a national, integrated health care system.
Proventys, Newton, Mass.-based maker of advanced decision support technologies, has entered into an exclusive collaboration with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to introduce the Proventys CDS Oncology system.