Whether CD and DVD burners serve a small, single-center provider, or a large, multi-site healthcare system, the technology helps manage patient images and ease the process of image transfer. The best systems work fast and smartintegrating well with PACS and enabling remote burning and disk labeling.

The Amicas board of directors announced Monday that an updated proposal from Merge Healthcare to purchase Amicas for $6.05 per share is superior to the agreement it entered into with Thoma Bravo back in December.

ATLANTA--Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2005 went from a Stage One hospital with only ancillaries online applications, to a Stage Four facility, complete with live nursing documentation and partial physician documentation based on the HIMSS analytics model for EMR adoption. Having recently undergone a computer provider order entry (CPOE) activation, Chris Longhurst MD, medical director of clinical informatics at LPCH, spoke about the considerations for CPOE and clinical documentation activation strategies at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--If there is a perceived problem of data quality, then all of the planning for a dashboard implementation is irrelevant, according to Jonathan Rothman, MBA, principal at Emergency Medicine Business Intelligence, who presented an educational session today at the HIMSS10 conference. Also, for a dashboard to have relevance within an organization, the employees must fully comprehend its role, he said.

ATLANTA--Clinicians, heathcare executives, as well as the IT tools they utilize to improve direct patient care will truly revolutionize the U.S. healthcare system, stated Barry Chaiken, MD, chairman of the board of directors for HIMSS, at Monday''s opening address and keynote session at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--Information technologies (IT) shouldnt be the focal point of whats making [image consolidation solution] decisions. Instead, it should be the users of the system driving the decisions, and the system should be operational 24/7, 365 days a year, said Jill Wojcik of the nonprofit Continued Health Partners in New York City during a presentation today at HIMSS10.

Loss of patient data and prescription errors are just two potential safety risks associated with health IT (HIT) adoption. As the FDA examines these issues, the agency is questioning how to better regulate this new electronic field and which branch of government oversight is best suited to monitor such safety concerns.

ATLANTA--Progress does not happen in one direction, sometimes you have to go in the complete opposite direction to get to where you want to be, said closing keynote speaker Alison Levine during today's 2010 CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum.