Few industries are undergoing as many challenges as healthcare.  Rising costs, the move to electronic health records (EHRs) and concerns about keeping protected health information (PHI) secure, continues to be top priorities for healthcare providers. Canon U.S.A. Inc. demonstrated its integrated document capture systems and mobile solutions at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Annual Conference (HIMSS) in Chicago April 13-15. These digital imaging and workflow management solutions are designed to help organizations increase efficiency and help support EHR interoperability, while enhancing security and contributing to overall cost savings for healthcare environments. 

Teleradiology interoperability vendor Dicom Systems is partnering with Health Level, a developer of data liquidity and analysis technology. Both companies presented at the 2015 Annual HIMSS conference and demonstrated the first results of the partnership.
 

A Mayo Clinic study has identified a familial association in spontaneous coronary artery dissection, suggesting a genetic predisposition to the condition. The results are published in the March 23 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

Pingmd Inc. announced an extension of the company’s partnership agreement with Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) for integration of the pingmd 2 platform, featuring three new capabilities to further strengthen communications between doctors, networks and patients. The announcement was made during the HIMSS 15 (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) annual conference and exhibition, April 13-15 in Chicago.

eClinicalWorks released recent survey findings examining public attitudes towards advances in patient engagement tools, and also conducted a separate study looking at physician opinions on this topic.

Health information exchange enables clinicians to have secure access to a patient's medical record including details on care received at other locations, but detailed identification of those locations is typically not available. Regenstrief Institute investigator Brian Dixon, MPA, Ph.D. will highlight this interoperability problem and propose strategies in a presentation to the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Conference and Exhibition.

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