Informatics news and information

From a healthcare informatics perspective, it's as if Juliet married Romeo and the parents approved. Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to improve...
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While there have been successes and failures in the deployment of open-source health information technology by federally supported safety net healthcare organizations, the federal government could and should do more to ensure more frequent successes, according to an HHS-funded report.
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A noted physician informatics specialist is predicting the FDA soon will begin regulating health information technology for the first time.
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Big changes have arrived for healthcare organizations seeking to leverage investments in health information technology and meeting government mandates and incentive payment program requirements. But physician informaticists must balance these multiple concerns and still keep patient care at the...
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Deloitte has named Brett Davis general manager of its newly launched Deloitte Health Informatics, which provides advanced analytics services and products to healthcare providers, researchers and medical manufacturers.
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Leigh Anderson has been named COO of informatics and technology services at Premier healthcare alliance in Charlotte, N.C. In his newly created role, he will oversee Premier's quality and safety improvement, population health management, and cost reduction applications.
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Dr. Davis Lee, unlike many physician informaticists, was a bit of a computer geek before becoming a doc.
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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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