SAN DIEGO, HIMSS Booth No. 1919, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- StorageTek(R) and Rorke Data, a subsidiary of San Jose-based Bell Microproducts, Inc. have formed an alliance aimed at improving the medical industry's access to secure, scalable, open
SAN DIEGO, HIMSS Conference, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- FineGround Networks, Inc., the leader in enterprise Web application acceleration, announced today that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) selected the FineGround Condenser(TM) Application
SAN DIEGO, HEALTHCARE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vitria(R) , the leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced Claims Transaction Manager(TM), a fully
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- For today's healthcare professional, accurate, secure medical transcription is more important than ever. It is a key, critical link in delivering accessible and affordable healthcare that is productive, effective and
TETERBORO, N.J., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated , the nation's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, announced today that its MedPlus subsidiary was recognized for the second consecutive year
CINCINNATI, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- MedPlus(TM) today announced the general availability of OptiMaxx EIS(TM) (Enterprise Imaging Solution), a dynamic electronic imaging solution which allows healthcare facilities to store, retrieve and analyze
MALVERN, Pa., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens demonstrates proven outcomes through workflow optimization at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, February 9-13 at the San Diego
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, will reveal its new Cardiff TELEform(R) MEDIclaim 837 Export Option at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?1604937 ) Oracle Corporation , the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced the availability of the Oracle(R) Healthcare Transaction Base
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cerner Corporation will let the clients do the talking at HIMSS 2003 in San Diego, Calif.In an environment where private demonstrations can include everything from PowerPoint slides to live code,
BURLINGTON, Vt., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IDX Systems Corporation will showcase the mission-critical difference IDX software applications make every day by enhancing patient care and substantially improving business performance at the 2003
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cerner Corporation announced today that Cerner Millennium(TM) release 2003 will be available March 2003. This new version, Cerner's eighth major and most comprehensive release, dramatically expands
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- McKesson Automation Inc., a business unit of McKesson Corporation, will announce at next week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2003 Conference and Exhibition, a new application for its
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson MICROMEDEX will demonstrate how the latest developments in information can support clinicians' decisions at this year's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in San Diego,
With HIPAA on the horizon, healthcare is recruiting a variety of solutions to secure the perimeter around sensitive medical images and patient data. Among the most popular to emerge is the virtual private network (VPN), which offers healthcare
Speech recognition systems began in the radiology department. They can now reach every area of the hospital, thanks to an enterprise-wide, voice-enabled clinical reporting solution from Talk Technology. The system, announced Monday at the HIMSS
Among the special events unfolding at this week's HIMSS meeting are several related to the joint RSNA-HIMSS Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative. This year, the IHE demonstration has been expanded to include a self-guided interactive
Given the healthcare industry's general state of immaturity in the use of business intelligence, HIMSS asked its members how important data warehousing is to the support of effective decision-making. The 38 respondents had titles ranging from chief
A group of nuclear medicine cardiologists and others who use nuclear medicine data have formed an ad hoc task force to encourage vendors to improve their DICOM software and work with each other to test their DICOM connectivity. Members of the task
After 12 years of organizational estrangement, the boards of directors of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Center for Healthcare Information Management (CHIM) are conducting talks aimed at bringing the two bodies
Agfa launched its medAr electronic patient record system at the European Congress of Radiology as part of the company's strategy to move beyond the radiology industry and into the healthcare enterprise product market. Developed by Quadrat, an
One of healthcare's worst security nightmares was played out in a mock trial at the HIMSS meeting this week. In the dock before an actual jurist in the lighthearted, though sobering, session was the fictitious Grits Healthcare System and its equally
Wireless communication technology already meets some needs in today's healthcare world in spite of limitations in its applicability, a HIMSS audience learned Tuesday afternoon. "Healthcare providers need time-sensitive data immediately," said Michael
Imaging must be integrated into the enterprise information infrastructure if the process improvements possible with PACS are to be realized, according to a speaker at HIMSS Wednesday. Many of the benefits of PACS extend well beyond the radiology
"Wireless integration," sometimes promoted as the most promising new development in healthcare since penicillin, may have trouble living up to the hype, according to speakers at a HIMSS education session Tuesday afternoon. "Cellular systems have a long
Moving to a paperless system can be expensive for hospitals at the start, but huge benefits in cost savings and added productivity eventually result, a HIMSS education session was told Tuesday. You may have to spend $34 million to go paperless, which
The U.S. Department of Defense is planning a comprehensive electronic medical record that eventually will be available anywhere in the world where a military patient is seen by military providers, according to a presentation Tuesday at the HIMSS meeting.
The looming federal patient privacy regulations and approaching compliance deadlines have become the number one IT priority among healthcare providers, according to preliminary results of a survey released Monday at the HIMSS conference. Analysis of
As the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative moves into its third year, several technical and implementation challenges must still be overcome before the undertaking can be called a success. Even so, the first two years have yielded
Web-enabled clinical support software developed for oncologists provides sophisticated rules-based treatment recommendations based on established oncology clinical guidelines, according to a speaker at the HIMSS conference this morning. "Rising costs
