NASA developing electronic health records

NASA is on board with EHRs (electronic health records) as it unveiled plans to develop a comprehensive EHR system.

 To enhance the quality of Occupational Health (OH) services to its employees provided at all NASA Centers and Facilities, the NASA Office of the Chief of Health and Medical Officer is pursuing development of an EHR.

 The first phase is the acquisition of relevant technical information on systems that can meet the needs of NASA's OH services.

 The EHR Project Team has contacted several software vendors that may meet criteria for the specific application. The organization desires more definitive technical and operational information and issued a request for information (RFI) to all capable and interested vendors of OH software.

 For additional information, visit the NASA Occupational Health website at http://ohp.nasa.gov.

Around the web

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup