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U.S. senator probes hospitals about healthcare IT issues
By Cynthia E. Keen
A U.S. senator has sent a letter to 31 hospitals requesting feedback about problems with their healthcare IT systems and asking them to report reticence or failure by healthcare IT vendors to promptly fix problems with HIT software.
January 24, 2010
Digisonics wins 3 contracts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has nabbed three new contracts for its OB-Windows reporting and database software.
January 21, 2010
QuadraMed, e-MDs to collaborate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm QuadraMed and partner e-MDs have won a contract with University Medical Center at Princeton for an ambulatory electronic health record offering.
January 11, 2010
Siemens wins contract with United Health
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has inked a long-term agreement with United Health Services.
January 11, 2010
Survey: EMR use increased in 2008
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Physicians working in office-based practices in the U.S. increased their use of electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR) by 18.7% between 2007 and 2008, according to the results of a new survey.
January 10, 2010
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Carestream inks deal with Technology Partners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has signed a comarketing agreement with billing software developer Technology Partners.
January 7, 2010
Healthcare IT pays off, but don't hold your breath
By Cynthia E. Keen
Investing in healthcare IT projects such as electronic health records (EHR) and e-prescription systems produces significant socioeconomic benefits, but it can take nearly 10 years to see the first positive returns, according to a new study from Europe.
January 6, 2010
GE, Intel expand pact to U.K.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide remote patient monitoring system to include the U.K.
January 4, 2010
DAAS scale predicts necrotizing enterocolitis severity in infants
By Cynthia E. Keen
Duke University researchers have developed a 10-point Duke abdominal assessment scale (DAAS) that can simplify the review of multiple abdominal x-ray reports of infants with clinical symptoms of necrotizing enterocolitis, helping to predict the severity of the disease.
December 29, 2009
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HHS announces $38 million in health IT grants
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the availability of two additional grant programs to support the training and development of a skilled healthcare IT workforce to support its national electronic medical record adoption initiative.
December 23, 2009
Children's hospital achieves HIMSS milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is the first children's hospital in North America to achieve stage 7 of the HIMSS Analytics' electronic medical record adoption program.
December 22, 2009
Amicas inks Kentucky contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor Amicas has won a contract with Central Kentucky Radiology to install the company's Financials and RIS billing and management programs.
December 20, 2009
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