PACS: According to a new report, prepared by the research firm IMV showed that the market for electronic picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) is largely in "replacement mode." The report was titled "The PACS/IT Continuum: Present Access and Future Integration Strategies, 2010-2012," an...

MedCurrent Corporation in Los Angeles announced that launch of its new radiology decision support solution, OrderRight, which was designed to help health imaging facilities and referring physicians. The new system supports automated payer pre-authorization, with a rules-based system that is includi...

E health is one of the most progressing fields of global healthcare. New solutions are provided every day by major companies in Europe and worldwide aiming to support healthcare facilities with products that significantly add value to their delivered healthcare services, starting with Electronic...

Medical imaging field is growing rapidly and so are the solutions that make medical imaging possible. Here you will have a variety of free courses on different healthcare and particularly imaging IT including PACS, EMR, EHR, DICOM, HL7 etc. A great deal of care has been taken that all the courses ar...

This introduction to Electronic Health Records (EHR) provides an overview of the EHR architecture, its components, the interfaces and its functional definition. The relationship with the PHR and EMR is explained. A sample EHR, as implemented by the US VA system is shown with a couple of user screens...

Skip Kennedy, Kaiser Permanente talked about the top PACS problems. An important issue is what to do if the system goes down. One of the things people focus on is to get a better reliable system, in other words, how to get more "9’s in your uptime (99,999%?). However, each "9" relates to a substan...

Barrie's Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) is currently sending 2,500 electronic patient reports weekly to physicians at the Barrie and Community Family Health Team (BCFHT). These reports are sent directly to the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) of the patients at the BCFHT. Dr. Anne DuVall, Lead Physici...

Logica, a company providing healthcare IT solutions,  announced that it has signed a contract with the Region of Southern Denmark to provide a new patient administration system. Logica is going to offer Cambio’s Cosmic patient administration system, the system will be used in all 17 hospitals in ...

Kaiser Permanente is expressing appreciation to healthcare information technology and healthcare coordination; this comes as result for their help, offered to more than 40%, of very high-risk patients to reach national cholesterol guidelines, an objective that previous studies showed that it was dif...

New York State is going to improve its access to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) thanks to efforts made by two the federally designated healthcare IT regional extension centers (RECs) of the city. Today, the New York eHealth Collaborative and the NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health (...