Structured reporting might not necessarily solve quality problems associated with free-text dictation, according to a study published Aug. 25 online in Radiology.

The failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) replacement scheduling application development program is part of a pattern of larger agency system problems related to the implementation and management of IT projects, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology, a Milwaukee-based medical informatics company, was granted U.S. patent number 7,583,861 for its Evercore-Smartstore clinical content management system.

The Data Interchange Standards Association has launched DISAcert, an automated, scenario-based online testing service to ensure compliance with new 5010 transaction standards related to HIPAA.

Recognizing public health achievement through health information management, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) awarded the Boston Public Health Commission, Infectious Disease Bureau and Denver Public Health, Denver Public Health Information Service as recipients of the 2009 HIMSS Davies Public Health Award of Excellence.

GE Healthcare has launched an initiative aimed at developing wireless medical monitoring systems that could replace the tangle of bedside cables used to capture patients vital signs.

The American Hospital Association (AHA), through its subsidiary AHA Solutions, has endorsed Extensions HealthID, a secure smart card that holds individual patient data for use by hospitals.

Unlike past purchase decisions where cost and resource requirements dominated, community hospital executives now consider physician adoption the foremost criterion when purchasing a hospital information system (HIS), according to a report released Tuesday from KLAS.