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,

Language is less of a barrier now for prospective customers of iPACS, a Web-based PACS product from RealTimeImage. At SCAR, the company introduced multi-language support with an extended unicode character set for its iPACS product line. User interfaces

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

Electronic medical records are based on input-oriented architectures separated into laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, and other hospital divisions, but if given a choice, clinicians would reorganize the records around physiological systems. Analysis

Five years from now, will Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-like initiatives function across all medical disciplines, paving the way for the first truly enterprise-wide electronic patient record? That is the vision of several participants in the IHE