Mike Miliard
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced that EHR technology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has been certified as a complete EHR under CCHIT's new EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals (EACH), an ONC-ATCB certification program for installed hospital EHR technology.
"So the kid might be in daycare. The parent is at work. The nurse connects to the system. Let's say the doctor is on the golf course. He gets a call. But he doesn't want to leave. So he pulls out a smartphone. Three different people in three different places can join the collaboration."
Seeking to expand its suite of clinical solutions for unified patient information management, NaviNet, the biggest healthcare communications network in the country, announced in December its acquisition of McLean, Va.-based Prematics, a provider of mobile care management solutions.
In a move it says will save money and headaches – and which will be especially useful in the healthcare industry – HP has introduced what it bills as the first unified system to accelerate the reliable, secure delivery of software applications and services across heterogeneous environments.
In an investment expected to pay dividends as health reform becomes "the law of the land" and healthcare IT use grows, Aetna announced in December that it would spend $500 million to acquire Medicity, a Salt Lake City-based developer of health information exchange (HIE) technology.
The number of CIOs who expect their hospitals to qualify early for stimulus funding connected to meaningful use of electronic health records has dropped by half, according to a survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives.
The charter tenants for Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center (Cleveland MMCC) were introduced this past Friday, at a groundbreaking held in front of more than 600 business, civic, community, and political leaders.
The eHealth Initiative (eHI), whose mission is to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through IT, has announced the industry leaders nominated for the 2011 Board of Directors. The board will be led by the new Chair William F. Jessee, MD, president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, and Vice Chair Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative.
GE and Intel announced Monday that their joint healthcare initiative will be called Care Innovations, and that the company is operational starting today. Care Innovations will develop technologies that support healthy, independent living at home and in senior housing communities.
Good Samaritan Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center are the first two hospitals in South Florida to use radio frequency (RF) detection technology in their operating rooms to prevent and detect foreign items inadvertently left inside a patient during surgery.