Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration
The collaboration allows providers to order diagnostic tests and then receive results directly in Epic.
FDA clears new cloud-enabled Philips cardiovascular IT system
The cloud-enabled system provides the foundation for future AI-enabled tools, better workflows and analytics.
FDA announces recall for Johnson & Johnson devices due to cybersecurity risk—customers urged to act
The FDA and Johnson & Johnson MedTech are telling customers to keep the devices in a secure environment until they can be disabled from all networks.
ACC urges Congress to restore telemedicine flexibilities
The American College of Cardiology, like many other U.S. medical societies, is fighting to bring back telehealth policies that expired at the end of September.
AI now embedded in nearly every cardiovascular IT system
Artificial intelligence's role in day-to-day patient care continues to grow. What should health systems and cardiology departments be thinking about as they shop for new technologies?

VIDEO: Getting cardiologist buy-in on artificial intelligence

Ami Bhatt, MD, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) chief innovation officer and adult congenital heart disease cardiologist at Mass General Hospital, discusses how to get physician acceptance to use artificial intelligence (AI).

Smartwatch app accurately detects atrial fibrillation in large Chinese study

A Chinese study of 2.8 million participants found that 94% of users flagged for AFib indeed have the heart rhythm disorder.

Walmart rolling out ‘state-of-the-art’ health centers with imaging, Epic EHR integration

Along with X-rays, the new outposts will also offer primary care, lab work, EKGs, behavioral health, dental, optical, and hearing services, all for a flat fee, the retailer reported.

Business analytics help radiology department boost CT use for fragile patients despite COVID disruptions

Sant’Andrea University Hospital in Rome saw overall imaging volumes plummet 21.5% but improved numbers among vulnerable populations using real-time data, experts wrote in European Radiology.

Experts call for more structured reporting after study reveals wide variances in radiologist reads

Variations in the day of the week, time of interpretation, workload burden and even the reader’s gender all impacted radiologists’ written expressions in free text reports.

Justice Department steps into EHR vendor lawsuit

The U.S. Department of Justice has become involved in a lawsuit against electronic health record (EHR) vendor Modernizing Medicine.

3 takeaways on the large number of mergers and acquisitions in healthcare revenue cycle management and IT

Greenberg Advisors recently released its 2021 Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Update, which describes investment and M&A activity in the revenue cycle management (RCM) and healthcare IT (HCIT) sectors.

VIDEO: 4 predictions on key cardiac technologies for the coming years

Mass General cardiologist and Harvard professor Ami Bhatt, MD, predicts upcoming paradigm shifts in cardiology over the next decade.

Informatics

Boston Scientific partners with Epic on data integration

FDA clears new cloud-enabled Philips cardiovascular IT system

FDA announces recall for Johnson & Johnson devices due to cybersecurity risk—customers urged to act

ACC urges Congress to restore telemedicine flexibilities

AI now embedded in nearly every cardiovascular IT system