Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

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InterSystems, eHealth Technologies align on images, informatics

InterSystems and eHealth Technologies have partnered to provide access to images such as x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and ultrasounds via InterSystems' HealthShare informatics platform, which is currently used by hospitals, integrated delivery networks and health information exchanges.

JAMIA: What makes an informaticist?

Medical informatics is more than health IT. The growth of educational informatics programs and omnipresence of health IT tools have led to a misunderstanding of who informaticists are and what they do, according to a perspective published online Oct. 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Cerner, Nuance partner on mobile EHR technologies

Cerner and Nuance Communications have signed an expanded agreement in which Cerner will embed Nuance’s cloud-based medical voice recognition into its full portfolio of mobile EHR technologies.

HealthTech acquires Acuitec

HealthTech Holdings has acquired integrated perioperative solutions developer, Acuitec.

Chopra: New business models needed to support innovation, reform

CHICAGO--Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer of the United States from 2009 until earlier this year, spoke about harnessing the power of technology during the final talk of the 84th American Health Information Management Association Convention & Exhibit.

UPMC makes $100M investment into a data warehouse

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is investing $100 million over five years into a data warehouse with multiple analytics applications, along with partners Oracle, IBM, Informatica and dbMotion.

Wil Yu: 'Think through a lens of innovation'

CHICAGO--Wil Yu, senior advisor on innovation for the city and county of San Francisco and former special assistant, innovations at the Office of the National Coordinator of HIT, urged his audience at the 84th Convention & Exhibit of the American Health Information Management Association to “think through a lens of innovation.”

Barcoding Is Only the Beginning

The FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) system has developed in fits and starts since becoming law back in 2007, but the intervals of inactivity should shorten if not cease altogether on Nov. 7.

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