ORLANDO, Fla.--Health IT company Sandlot debuted SandlotQRM, its quality reporting and measures application, at the HIMSS11 conference.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Covisint, a Compuware company, has announced a partnership with HealthShare Montana, a nonprofit statewide initiative focused on the exchange of healthcare information during HIMSS11. The partnership offers Montana health providers access to patients' medical and administrative information at the point of care, Covisint stated.

MedPlus, a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics, has updated its Care360 EHR with support for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Direct Project specifications.

Merge Healthcare, a health IT interoperability developer, has announced a net loss among for its financial results for the 2010 fiscal year, despite strong net sales for the year and the 2010 fourth quarter.

Right ventricular failure (RVF) was associated with reversible reduction in left ventricular (LV) free wall mass in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, according to a study in the Feb. 22 Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- In the three-month period from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1, 2009, more than 567,000 medication alerts sounded at Sisters of Mercy Health System in St. Louis. Its no wonder alert fatigue had set in among physicians. During a poster presentation at HIMSS11, Physician Informaticist Michael Hunt, DO, explained revisions made to the medication alert process to trim the frequency of the alerts, helping physicians to better tune in when the alerts sounded.

Oracle has bolstered its Healthcare Master Person Index (MPI) with support for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) clinical use case profiles that enable healthcare enterprises and health information exchanges (HIEs) to create, manage and share EHRs.

Health Language (Booth 1821) is demonstrating three medical terminology products that enable hospitals and health systems to meet Stage 1 meaningful use measures, during the 2011 HIMSS show Feb. 20 to 24 in Orlando, Fla.