FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc., a major provider of diagnostic imaging products, announced that it will demonstrate Synapse® Mobility, its zero footprint mobile application enabling remote access to Fujifilm's suite of Synapse products from mobile devices, as well as Macintosh- or windows-bas...

More than 30,000 IT professionals to gather in Orlando for HIMSS11 The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2011 Conference kicks off on Feb. 20th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. and promises to be the top healthcare IT gathering of the year. Joyce Lofst...

The Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc. announced its EHR service platform, athenaClinicals, has been chosen by the Charleston-based West Virginia Regional Health Information Technology Extension Center (WVRHITEC) as a Five Star vendor in its EHR Vendor Recognition Program (VRP). WVRHITEC is ...

A recent rigorous study conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago on health information technology has found that 78 percent of Americans favor use of electronic medical records (EMRs). The results of the NORC study are important because they appear to show popular support for initiatives of P...

Microsoft Corp. announced it will offer new innovative technology solutions designed to help states quickly roll out their statewide health insurance exchanges by 2014. These solutions are part of Microsoft's broader set of offerings for health and human services, developed to assist states in redu...

EMIS Group plc, one of UK's leading providers of clinical software to NHS GPs in the United Kingdom, has been chosen by CSC in Australia, a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions, to aid in establishing a new electronic health information system for the Australian Defence Force (A...

Religare Technologies, a leading Indian company in healthcare technology, announced today the launch of HealthLine 24x7, India’s first, free, phone-based and web-based healthcare information assistance service. HealthLine 24x7 is a Health Information Helpline and Assistance platform that offers 24x...

Orion Health, a company developing health information exchange technology, and Health Language, Inc., a company specializing in medical terminology management, announced that they are cooperating together aiming to improve patient safety, communication between doctors, promoted clinical decision sup...

Westborough, Mass-based eClinicalWorks, an ambulatory clinical systems provider, unveiled that Oklahoma’s Cynthia Taylor, M.D., affiliated with Norman Regional Health System, is the first in the country to be awarded a reimbursement check from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for f...

The Chicago-based HIMSS announced the establishment of a new HIMSS Latino Initiative to focus on health IT needs for the rapidly growing Hispanic/Latino market. During HIMSS11, the HIMSS Latino Initiative will host a program including a keynote speech by former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello,...