To make a muddled emergency department system more transparent and better report on patient satisfaction and performance indicators, staff at the Hospital of Central Connecticut implemented a business intelligence model to simplify workflow and increase doctor to patient time, said Jeff A. Finkelstein, MD, chief of emergency medicine during a presentation at the HIMSS virtual conference expo June 9.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors has selected Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, as the new editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

Siemens Healthcare will begin deploying its new Soarian AIM [Agile Implementation Methodology], at all future Soarian Health Information System installations.

Unlike most segments of health IT, which are dominated by a handful of healthcare-focused vendors, the enterprise business intelligence technologies deployed at hospitals are more likely to come from general software companies like SAP and IBM, according to a report from healthcare research firm KLAS.

Targeted deployment of health analytics, or business intelligence applications, could improve patient outcomes, increase safety, enhance operational efficiency and reduce costs of healthcare, according to an article in the April edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

ATLANTA--The EMR vendor had the sharpest booth at a HIMSS show several years ago, with the nicest signage and the best demonstration. The vendor was also facing a lawsuit from customers who said it didn't deliver as promised.

Healthcare coding, compliance and reimbursement provider, Alpha II, will equip its partners end-users with its latest code sets, ICD-9 CM, Current Procedural Terminology and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, a provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anodyne Health Partners, which develops Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business applications for healthcare providers.