ORLANDO, Fla.-- Theres a simple definition of security and privacy: As a patient or provider, you want no unexpected use of your data, said Eric Pupo, MBA, who serves as chief architect in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), during a Feb. 22 HIMSS11 educational session. 

ORLANDO, Fla.--Standards of interoperability are needed because whitepapers are not specifications, said Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director at the Office of Interoperability & Standards at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Feb. 22 during the 2011 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Since healthcare delivery is fragmented, chaotic and too expensive, taming the chaos will require a new breed of leaders at every level, as well as a more uniform, systematic approach to providing patient care, said Nate Kaufman, during his keynote address of the CIO Forum, hosted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, in conjunction with HIMSS11. However, accountable care organizations, if they are to come to fruition, will first start with clinical integration.

ORLANDO, FLA.--Gretchen E. Tegethoff, CIO and director of IT at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., told CMIO about how federal health IT initiatives have influenced the provider setting, as well as how the workforce shortage for health IT professionals could impact the current momentum, at the 2011 HIMSS conference. Also, she spoke to how the role of the CMIO is evolving in clinical practice.

ORLANDO, FLA.--Timothy D. Stettheimer, PhD, senior vice president and regional CIO at St. Vincents Health System/Ascension Health in Birmingham, Ala., elucidated how his provider's health IT initiatives are seeking to implement evidence-based medicine strategies and improve quality at the 2011 HIMSS annual conference. Additionally, he spoke about the evolving role of the CMIO in the contemporary healthcare environment.

CriticalKey (Booth 2387) is releasing its KeyEngine 2.0 technology for hospitals, a platform to electronically broker orders, distribute results and insert electronic results into a referring physicians EMR during the 2011 HIMSS convention Feb. 20 to 24 in Orlando, Fla.

ORLANDO, Fla.--How physicians and researchers make genomic and molecular data available to stratify patient populations based on various criteria (such as the diagnosis of a patients stage of cancer) may be able to help clinicians group patients to determine best practices for clinical decision support (CDS), said David Fenstermacher, PhD, chair of the department of biomedical informatics at the Moffitt Cancer Center, at a Feb. 22 educational session on personalized health and genomics at HIMSS11.

Toshiba America Medical Systems has installed the first Aquilion One CT system with Dose Check Software and radiation dosing technologies at Winona Health in Winona, Minn.