Biomedical informatics researchers at the Mayo Clinic and IBM have launched the Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium, which is establishing the open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in EMR information extraction.

Amicas has partnered with Healthinc of Sydney, Australia, to bring Amicas PACS, Amicas Reach and Amicas RadStream to the Australian market.

Kaiser Permanente has improved the heart attack survival rate for its members in Colorado through a program that links coronary artery disease patients and teams of pharmacists, nurses, primary care doctors and cardiologists, with an EHR and advanced clinical care registry.

It was the height of the Great Depression, a seemingly terrible time to launch Americas first business journalFortune. Or was it? America was wrought with economic crisis and Fortune set out to smartly profile entrepreneurial culture. The crash piqued American business leaders desire to look into the back-offices of entrepreneurs to see what was working and what was not; and to look at government policy and practice to offer insight and truth. Fortune met a need, it answered the call with real-world, intelligent, upscale, objectiveand often brash and criticalarticles for business leaders under siege.

With the emergence of the CMIO position in the mid-1990s, the recognition by the administrative, healthcare information services and, importantly the American medical profession that the role of a senior informatics healthcare executive was vital and integral to the provision of healthcare services was clear.

It might be the biggest thing ever to happen to health information technology: billions of federal dollars to fund adoption and use of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs). But will health IT reduce errors, cut costs, save jobs, allow interoperability among disparate clinical systems, and transform healthcare? Could the greatest cost be the quality of medicine physicians practice?

An inside look at cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) and the myriad data elements that go into the successful integration of cardiology images, lab results, patient histories and hemodynamic monitoring and procedure data to facilitate access to key caregivers at the point of carewherever that may be.

While a recent clinical study found that health IT systems have the potential to reduce deaths by 15 percent, in addition to saving costs, the lead investigator advises that a unified paradigm shift and proper planning across a health system is required to produce effective results and improve patient care.