Digital Transformation

This evolution of healthcare involves using technology to improve diagnosis, treatments, monitor patients, enhance hospital operations and culture, and bolster consumer-focused care. This includes virtual reality tools, wearable devices, workflow software, health apps and other digital health tools.

ACC: NextGen offers EHR financing plans

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems highlighted its financing options that can help customers defray some of the upfront costs associated with implementing an EHR, at ACC.10 in March in Atlanta.

NEJM: Patient/physician dynamic changing due to internet

The internet has had profound effects on healthcare by putting access equally in the hands of patients and physicians, thereby redefining their roles, according to an opinion article published in the March 25 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

ACC: McKesson updates CVIS with server virtualization, disaster recovery capabilities

McKesson's Horizon Cardiology cardiovascular information system (CVIS) now offers hosted storage solutions for data protection, archive and disaster recovery, in addition to virtualized server solutions. The company announced these new options for Horizon version 12.1, a single-database CVIS, during ACC.10 in Atlanta.

Kardia, TomTec team up for cardiovascular image analysis

Kardia Health Systems and Munich-based TomTec Imaging Systems have formed a new partnership to deliver TomTecs multi-modality cardiovascular image analysis technology as a part of Kardia Complete, its forthcoming web-based service for workflow in cardiology practices.

HIMSS: Fully functional EMR can equal more patients, more revenues

ATLANTA During an education session Wedhesday at HIMSS10, Gregory Oliver, DO, primary physician at Oliver Family Healthcare, shared his insight into how to implement a fully functional EMR in a solo practice and raise profits by 25 percent annually through efficiency and the laddering of technologies.

The ACC Corner: A Meaningful Opportunity to Adopt Health IT

In December 2009, CMS released a proposed rule that aims to change the practice of medicine. This rule, if finalized, will codify a $17.2 billion dollar program that provides large financial incentives to practices that adopt EHRs. The finalization of this program represents an unprecedented commitment to health IT and to transitioning physician practices from paper to EHRs.

CVIS: Improving Departments from Within

Cardiology departments are learning that their cardiovascular information systems (CVIS) are the perfect conduit to produce actionable and quantifiable data that can drive quality process improvement and cost savings.

Siemens, NextGen rekindle alliance for ambulatory IT

Siemens Healthcare has renewed its strategic alliance with EHR/practice management company NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, to deliver ambulatory IT software.

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.