ATLANTAIn the implementation process of an EMR, time needs to be allotted in the rollout process to educate the staff about the new system, according to Stanley Wisniewski, MD, principal at Cal Arundel Family Medicine in Huntington, Md., during an educational session Wednesday at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA -- You have been leaders and we want you to continue to be leaders and we will follow your lead, said David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health IT, in his March 3 keynote at HIMSS10. Speaking to a capacity crowd, Blumenthal outlined the ONCs accomplishments of the past 10 months and the work still ahead.

ATLANTA--Health IT support [within a hospital] may not have the skill set to manage images, and radiology support does not have skill set to manage integration of all hospital information, so we need both groups to work together. I think that both groups together will make a much stronger system, said Janice Honeyman-Buck, PhD, independent imaging informatics consultant and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Imaging, during her session Wednesday at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--Will, ideas and execution are needed to improve the translation of health IT to patient care, according to Don Goldmann, MD, senior vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement during an educational session this morning at HIMSS10.

ATLANTA--Healthcare reform isnt going to happen in the halls of Congress, but through improved data-driven quality throughout the U.S. healthcare system, said Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier, during an educational session Tuesday at HIMSS10.

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.