Health Information Exchange (HIE)

With each advance in medical imaging, the role of radiology in healthcare becomes more central and the need for clinicians to have immediate access to medical imaging data more critical.

Connecting has never been more critical.

The Health IT Standards Committee has begun exploring some of the functions that electronic health records should be capable of performing in Stage 2 of meaningful use, with providers using health information exchange to send patients their information to a personal health record (PHR) a prominent example.

The ONC announced earlier this week that more than 60 healthcare and health IT organizations - from EHR vendors to integrated delivery systems to state-based and private-sector HIEs - have expressed their support for the Direct Project's simple and secure messaging protocols.

Military healthcare provider will help fortify Fusionfx HIE platform

The ease with which IBM’s Watson computer dispatched its human opponents on Jeopardy! this past February was something to behold.

Parody project becomes sly marketing campaign for two IT vendors

Patient Centered Medical Home initiative follows patient home

While lawmakers in Washington continue to duke it out over the federal budget, many experts are saying the $27 billion allotted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reward providers for healthcare IT adoption should be secure, mainly because healthcare IT has bipartisan support.

David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health information technology, announced his departure from the ONC just 17 days before the HIMSS11 conference began on Feb. 19 in Orlando, Fla. Blumenthal came onboard just two weeks prior to HIMSS09.