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Spooner named CIO of the year

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society have chosen William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, Calif., as the recipient of the 2009 John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year Award.

HHS seeks to re-identify de-identified HIPAA data

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to solicit and award a task order contract to acquire services for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), in order to re-identify a health Information Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) de-identified dataset.

Siemens director Primo re-elected as MITA imaging informatics chair

Siemens Healthcare announced yesterday that Henri"Rik" Primo, director of marketing and strategic relationships, image and knowledge management, has been re-elected as chair of the medical imaging informatics section of the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA).

JAMIA: Contextualizing, integrated data important for future CDS models

A software application integrated with an EHR might display data to physicians about ambient public health conditions and prompt appropriate management, treatment and reporting processes based on a calculation that considered patient factors in a specific epidemiologic situation could be important for future clinical decision support (CDS) systems, according to a study in the January edition of the Journal of the American Medical informatics Association.

Cerner To Acquire IMC Health Care

Cerner has reached an agreement to acquire IMC Health Care,of Jacksonville, Fla., which provides employer-sponsored onsite health centers.

Tibotec acquires disease-management EMR platform

Therapeutic and diagnostic solutions provider Tibotec Virco Virology, has acquired the customizable EMR system-Lab Tracker HIV-from the Huntsville, Ala.-based company, Ground Zero Software.

NCVHS makes EHR meaningful use recommendations to HHS

Incentives in the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act represent an opportunity to accelerate the development, standardization and utilization of quality measures derived from clinical data in EHRs and from other clinical data sources, according to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).

JAMIA: EHRs uniqueness decreases over average admission time

EHRs should be designed to be clinically useful, practical and efficient, according to a recent study published in the January 2010 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

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Cardiovascular Business
GE HealthCare launches new cardiac CT scanner with advanced AI capabilities

GE HealthCare designed the new-look Revolution Vibe CT scanner to help hospitals and health systems embrace CCTA and improve overall efficiency.

Cardiovascular Business
Bracco updates HeartSee coronary flow capacity software with new diagnostic features

Clinicians have been using HeartSee to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease since the technology first debuted back in 2018. These latest updates, set to roll out to existing users, are designed to improve diagnostic performance and user access.

Cardiovascular Business
Key trends in diagnostic heart testing: CT on the rise as some traditional techniques fall out of favor

The cardiac technologies clinicians use for CVD evaluations have changed significantly in recent years, according to a new analysis of CMS data. While some modalities are on the rise, others are being utilized much less than ever before.