Medical Imaging


Imaging technologies are highly advanced in the health care industry and have become commonplace in diagnosis and treatment. Yet managing and consolidating images in the contemporary clinical setting is a challenge. Read here about picture archiving systems, integration with electronic health records, image data standards, and storage and distribution issues across widespread networks.


New Merge Healthcare Business Model Tanks Stock

Joseph Goedert | May 08
The stock price of medical imaging software vendor Merge Healthcare Inc. fell 40 percent in morning trading on May 8 as the company announced changes to its business model and failed to meet expectations in the first quarter of 2012.
Vendor News
Group Practices
Hospitals

Health I.T. Vendor Round-up: Allscripts, Enterasys, Stoltenberg & Merge

Joseph Goedert | May 01
A new chairman for Allscripts and new initiatives from three other firms are among recent health information technology vendor announcements:
EHR
Group Practices
Policy & Regulation
Mobile Technology
Hospitals

Siemens, Varian Align for Oncology Market

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26
Siemens Healthcare and oncology vendor Varian Medical Systems will sell certain products of the other under a new global marketing partnership.
Group Practices
Hospitals
Vendor News

HIT Vendor Round-up: Thomson Reuters, Psyche Systems, Merge & EZ-CAP

Joseph Goedert | Apr 11
Client wins and new alliances dominate recent health information technology vendor announcements:
Health Info Exchange
Systems Integration
Electronic Data Interchange
Revenue Cycle Management
Revenue Cycle & Payments

HDM Announces Health I.T. Young Bloods Contest

Gary Baldwin | Apr 04
Entries are now being accepted for the first “Health I.T. Young Bloods” contest sponsored by Health Data Management.
EHR
Chronic Care
Decision Support
Disease Management
Document Management
Mobile Technology
Hospitals
Group Practices
Payers
Revenue Cycle Management
Medication Management

Panasonic Revamps its Health Care Division

Joseph Goedert | Apr 03
Following its 2011 acquisition of Sanyo Electronic Co. along with its health care unit, Panasonic Corporation of American has formed a new health care division.
Vendor News
Medication Management
Hospitals

HDM Readers Weigh in on New HIT Study

Mar 16
A recent study suggesting use of health information technology increases the ordering of tests spurred debate among study authors and National HIT Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, with HDM readers then weighing in. Here’s a sampling of reader comment:
EHR
Hospitals
Group Practices
Policy & Regulation
Stimulus

Health Affairs I.T. Study Authors Fire Back at Mostashari

Joseph Goedert | Mar 14
Following a rebuke from Farzad Mostashari, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, of a recent study concluding that electronic access to imaging and lab test results increases the ordering of additional tests, the study’s authors have fired back.
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EHR
Hospitals
Group Practices
Policy & Regulation
Stimulus

Health I.T. Vendor Round-up: QuadraMed, True Process, OTTR & Acuo

j | Mar 13
A number of health care information technology vendors have recently introduced new products and services or initiatives. They include:
Hospitals
Web Technology
Medication Management
EHR
Systems Integration
Vendor News

Commentary: Vendor, Know Thy Cloud

Jim Ericson | Mar 01
As I was snooping around the enormous HIMSS show, one of my writer colleagues mentioned some interesting things were starting to happen in health care involving cloud computing.
Systems Integration
Mobile Technology
Data Repositories
Health Info Exchange

The Challenges of Integrating PACs and EHRs

Feb 23
Dr. John Riggs, Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems at the Harris County Hospital Districts, talks about the challenges of integrating imaging applications into EHRs.
EHR

HIMSS12 Notable and Quotable, Part Deux

Gary Baldwin | Feb 22
“You’ll know when you should leave a stressful meeting.”
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation

McKesson Buys peerVue to Enhance Radiology Workflow

Joseph Goedert | Feb 09
McKesson Corp. has acquired peerVue Inc., a vendor of radiology workflow management software, for an undisclosed sum.
Hospitals
Vendor News
Group Practices
Revenue Cycle Management

Contractor ManTech Enters Health Care via Evolvent Acquisition

Joseph Goedert | Jan 09
Government information technology contractor ManTech International Corp. has entered the health I.T. arena with an acquisition of fellow contractor Evolvent Technologies Inc. of Herndon, Va. Terms of the buy were not disclosed.
Payers
Vendor News
Data Security
EHR
Policy & Regulation
Hospitals
Group Practices

10 Tech Issues Meriting C-Level Attention

Joseph Goedert | Jan 03
A free report from research firm ECRI Institute details 10 technology issues that C-Level hospital executives should watch during 2012.
EHR
Hospitals
Health Analytics
Decision Support
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