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NewsMarket for EMRs forecast to reach $5.4B by 2015
The North American market for EMR systems will grow to $5.4 billion annually by 2015, according to a forecast from Global Industry Analysts. By contrast, European spending on EMRs will reach just Read more...
Study: Health IT budgets to increase
New estimates from IT research giant Gartner suggests that healthcare IT spending is set to expand dramatically in the coming years. According to Gartner, facilities will spend as much as 23 percent Read more...
Venture capital firm sets $250 million for health IT
Another private equity firm joined the health IT investment party this week. This time it's Galen Partners, a firm focused on healthcare investments, which has raised a whopping $250 million to Read more...
NY-area hospitals testing smart cardsOver next 18 to 24 months, a group of New York area hospitals will be pilot-testing smart cards that can carry the equivalent of 30 pages of medical records. The hospitals, which include Mount Sinai Medical Center, Jersey City Medical Center, Queens Hospital Center, Cabrini Medical Center and several others, plan to hand out 100,000 of the cards, that were developed by Siemens Medical Solutions. Siemens is actually subsidizing the initial round of cards, not to mention the hardware and … Read more...Case study: Partners invests in SOAWorking with Siemens Medical Solutions, Boston-based Partners HealthCare has decided to make a substantial investment in service-oriented architecture. Over the next 12 months, the health system will work its medication, problem and eventing services into the new architecture, using the Siemens Soarian SOA platform. This despite the fact that CIO John Glaser considers SOA to be "over-hyped and still immature." "I believe that SOA...is a very profound shift in the way that we think about … Read more...ALSO NOTED: How to make them join your RHIO;Getting tough on healthcare data security; and much more...> Here's an in-depth analysis of how nonprofit hospitals get even direct competitors to participate in a RHIO--and what factors might give you a leg up in RHIO negotiations. Blog > There's just no excuse for hospitals not to encrypt critical data, particularly given how often it has gotten lost or stolen of late, one security expert says. … Read more...Case study: Nurses drive MSHA EMR projectWhile it wasn't always the case in the past, nurses are playing an increasingly large role in shaping and rolling out EMR systems. That was definitely the case at Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA), which was aggressive enough to begin moving from paper records to EMR in 2001. MSHA's network includes 11 hospitals with 1,462 beds, 21 primary care centers and 13 outpatient clinics. While physicians often run EMR deployments, this time chief nursing executive Kathryn Wilhoit … Read more...HIPAA standards move forwardWe all know that the quest for standards is one of those elusive holy grails in healthcare IT. Get it right and you speed technology adoption, get it wrong and you feel like an American trying to plug in your electric razor into one of those funny outlets they've got in Europe. Maybe the folks involved with HIPAA will get it right. A slew of insurers, provider organizations and IT vendors have committed to use industry-developed rules to standardize the HIPAA eligibility verification and … Read more...Long Island providers roll-out CPOE systemLong Island healthcare provider and patient community Winthrop-University Hospital has implemented the region's first Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) system, which it says enables Winthrop physicians and clinical providers to enter patient care orders directly into the Hospital's clinical databases and review patients' medical information online via a secure private network that ensures patient confidentiality. Using Siemens Medical Solutions INVISION CPOE, the network leverages … Read more... |
