As hospitals and doctors' offices throughout the country race to join online systems that enable them to share medical information securely, a new study proposes that these systems may already be reducing and cutting unnecessary care. Based on new findings by University of Michigan researchers publ...

A new study in the journal Health Services Research discovered that nearly three-quarters of physicians using electronic health records in 2011 said there were clinical benefits when patients' medical histories were kept in digital files. The study’s main focus was on doctors' perceptions of clini...

An enhanced interoperability system allows for healthcare organizations to securely exchange imaging data, thus increasing referrals, reducing costs, and honoring regulatory requirements. Merge Healthcare, Inc. (Chicago, IL, USA) has recently released its novel invention, the iConnect Network, an a...

DALLAS, TX, and CHICAGO, IL, December 1, 2013 – BRIT Systems announced today that Kingspoint Medical Imaging Inc., a leading radiology and mobile imaging provider in Texas, has implemented the Roentgen Cloud to help manage, archive and share medical imaging across healthcare providers who use the ...

DALLAS, TX, November 26, 2013 – BRIT Systems, Inc., announced today that it is partnering with Radiolopolis to image enable the launch of Consult Me, a new peer review consultation capability on the Radiolopolis Radiology Network. Radiolopolis is a global community for radiology professionals tha...

USA, November 5, 2013 - Doctors at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta are using health IT to combine complex streams of data collected by multiple machines used in critical care into a single report they hope will provide a comprehensive picture of a patient's condition, the Associated Press repor...

USA, October 20, 2013 - Meaningful Use, information exchange, patient data matching and electronic quality measurements are among the areas of focus in 2014 for the public policy arm of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. CHIME will continue its work on Stages 1 through 3 o...

USA, October 20, 2013 - After two rounds of end-to-end ICD-10 testing, the results at the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance are "scary," executive director Holt Anderson told the Medical Group Management Association annual conference last week. For 20 dual-coded and ...

As of the today, the U.S. government remains no where near the possibility of ending the shutdown that has gripped the nation and has left over 800,000 federal employees unemployed since last Tuesday. And while the impact of the government shutdown on health IT hasn’t necessarily received prime im...

USA, October 8, 2013 - While radiologists are likely to be shielded from much of the pain associated with the transition to ICD-10, it remains important to keep pace with such efforts, according to Melody Mulaik, a coding and billing specialist who spoke at last week's American Healthcare Radiology ...