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Orion Health will acquire Microsoft's hospital information system (HIS) software assets, including RIS/PACS, previously known as Amalga HIS. The two companies will also collaborate to co-market their health information exchange and data aggregation and analysis products.
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them?
Within the past month, 14 critical access hospitals have joined the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), Nebraska's statewide health information exchange.
Rather than competing against each other, RECs and HIEs should be cooperating, and to mutual benefit.
Patrick Ward, CIO of CIRA, discusses implementing IT infrastructure to streamline physician workflow, earn a return on investment and enable the practice to participate in a health information exchange.
Intelligent InSites, which develops real-time location systems (RTLS) technology for hospitals, has partnered with Secure Care Products to expand the latter’s portfolio of patient safety solutions.
If you plan on attending the Social Media Summit hosted by Mayo Clinic next week get ready to experience your Twitter feed “in real life,” as one speaker puts it.
It’s no secret telemedicine has had a profound impact on the industry, both nationally and globally. Organizations in big and small cities are seeing the benefits of employing such technology. Shahid Shah gives us the five ways telemedicine is boosting care in rural communities.
Cook Children’s Health Care System, in partnership with athenahealth, Microsoft, Sanofi Pasteur and Merck, has launched a first-of-its kind program to use 2D barcodes on vaccines.
Mercy, the eighth largest Catholic healthcare system in the U.S., announced plans this week to build a virtual care center in Chesterfield, Mo., billed as "the first of its kind in the country."