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With its strong digital mammography product, which features the groundbreaking tomosynthesis imaging technique, Hologic has solidified its spot as top vendor in the space, according to a new KLAS study — Women’s Imaging 2012:Tomosynthesis Makes a Splash. The report found that tomosynthesis lives up to the hype in terms of its ability to detect lesions [...]
It is wonderful to be back amidst so many friends and associates in this world of healthcare, having just returned from a year in Portugal. My sweetheart and I had an amazing opportunity to work with and help the unemployed. While there, we discovered amazing recipes for salted codfish, a true Portuguese delicacy. The variety [...]
Have you gone to your local electronics store recently and looked at the various options available for digital cameras? I’m blown away by how many megapixels these cameras now have. Sometimes the clarity these cameras offer would only come in handy if I chose to enlarge a photo to be bigger than my home. If [...]
CIO roles in different industries, of course, differ vastly, but those within healthcare also have some unique attributes. Specifically, cancer center CIOs — such as Dana Farber, MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan Kettering and H. Lee Moffitt — share challenges their acute counterparts do not. But they also share some benefits, which, according to CIO Mark [...]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute VP & CIO Mark Hulse, Chapter 2 [ 15:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (321)As one of the few healthcare CIOs who didn’t grow up in the industry, Bill Fawns may be a bit more willing to look at different solutions to his organization’s software issues. And while Medsphere’s OpenVista technology was born and raised in the VA, it’s still seen by many lifers as the unconventional choice. Perhaps [...]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/Kern Medical Center CIO Bill Fawns, Chapter 2 Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (355)It didn’t take an act of Congress to start Carol Dresser and Hallmark Health implementing advanced clinical technologies. Hallmark — which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, Hallmark Health Cancer Center and Hallmark Health Medical Center — is now working to increase adoption of CPOE and perfect its bedside bar coded medication administration processes. What [...]
PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hallmark Health VP of IS Carol Dresser, Chapter 3 [ 10:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (194)As chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee, Pamela McNutt, SVP & CIO, Methodist Health System, is leading that organization’s response to the Meaningful Use Interim Final Rule (IFR). But McNutt’s dual role as member of the AHA IT Policy Advisory Committee gives her an even more powerful vantage from which to formulate a comment, while [...]
Inverness, Fla.-based Citrus Memorial Health System has selected McKesson’s Paragon community HIS to be implemented on a remote-hosted basis. The hospital is also using McKesson for document management and medical imaging, along with CPOE. Additionally, Citrus plans to connect with physicians in its outpatient clinics using McKesson’s Practice Partner ambulatory EHR. With more than 150 [...]
Three facilities taking part in “Image Movement of Montana (IMOM),” a grassroots organization composed of 30 Montana healthcare facilities, have gone live with eMix after a beta test. The IMOM facilities — including Great Falls Clinic (Great Falls, Mont.), Kalispell Regional Medical Center (Kalispell, Mont.) and St. Luke Community Healthcare (Ronan, Mont.) — will be [...]
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