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Security considerations in transmitting medical information
Whether it involves physicians, patients, or insurance companies, communicating information is an essential component of day-to-day healthcare practices. But data that is being transmitted is exposed to public systems, and is in jeopardy of being accessed by potentially malicious third-party users. Rocklyn Lien, a radiologic technologist and PACS administrator trainer, discusses the security considerations of transmitting digital medical information in today's healthcare environment.
January 18, 2007
Orion Health rolls out EHR in Spain
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare information technology developer Orion Health of Auckland, New Zealand, said that Hospital Universitario Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, has gone live with an electronic health record (EHR) and clinical applications portal.
January 17, 2007
Kodak Canada expands RIS development
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Kodak Canada, a division of Eastman Kodak Health Group of Rochester, NY, reported that it will be expanding healthcare information technology (IT) development efforts at its facility in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
January 17, 2007
Siemens to acquire GSD
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has agreed to purchase longtime partner Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD), a German developer of health information systems.
January 16, 2007
Medsphere inks Oroville EHR deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Electronic health record (EHR) developer Medsphere Systems has signed a five-year agreement to supply and deploy its OpenVista EHR product at Oroville Hospital in Oroville, CA.
January 16, 2007
GE introduces revenue-cycle partner program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has launched its Centricity Business Certified partner program, which allows qualified third-party practice management and billing companies to access its Centricity Business application.
January 15, 2007
New Haven receives $3 million healthcare IT grant
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Center for Community Health Leadership, an initiative sponsored by Misys Healthcare Systems, has selected New Haven, CT, for a grant of healthcare software valued at $3 million, according to the Raleigh, NC-based firm.
January 15, 2007
Philips, Biosense Webster collaborate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA, has signed a strategic alliance with cardiac technology developer Biosense Webster of Diamond Bar, CA, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.
January 15, 2007
Axolotl releases next iteration of EdgeServer
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare IT firm Axolotl has released version 2.1 of its Elysium EdgeServer, an application that can be deployed separately from its related Elysium infrastructure.
January 15, 2007
Sectra nets Netherlands RIS/PACS contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Swedish healthcare technology and device developer Sectra reported that Leiden University Medical Center has signed a RIS/PACS deal with the Linkoping-based firm.
January 15, 2007
DR Systems readies new Unity features
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS vendor DR Systems will introduce new features for its Unity RIS/PACS network at next month's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in New Orleans.
January 15, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Healthcare IT Insider
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
January 14, 2007
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