Informatics news and information

From the beginning, the federal government sought to leverage the meaningful-use requirements in the electronic health-record incentive payment program to get providers to think about what the systems might do besides taking, storing and regurgitating patient records.
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An estimated $200 billion could have been saved last year if patients and clinicians improved the way they use medications, according to a new study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.
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PatientsLikeMe, Cambridge, Mass., has named Marcia Nizzari VP of engineering.
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When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health...
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The competition for workers with high-tech analytics skills has been explosive during the past five years, partly because of new digital billing and patient-monitoring requirements for hospitals, doctors and physician groups under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician...
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Many of the current projects at the Boston-based Northeastern Personal Health Informatics program are aimed at giving individuals—particularly people with limited resources—more opportunities to take charge of their health.
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Trinity Health will look to the cloud to enhance its data processing and data analytics capabilities as well as its ability to more rapidly adapt its information technology systems to the fast-moving future.
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The Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has agreed to license its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a new for-profit subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange.
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Zhenqiu Liu joined Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles as director of bioinformatics in the department of medicine's hematology/oncology division on Feb. 18.
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