Health Information Technology News

IT consultant CapTech to hire 50, expand HQ (San Francisco Chronicle)
Information technology consultant CapTech says it plans to hire 50 people this year and expand its Richmond headquarters. The company said Thursday that its growth rate last year was 15 percent. The growth came despite the recession and the bankruptcies of… Information technology – Information technology consulting – CapTech – Business – Recession

Florida Hospital selects HealthPort s ROI Partner Program (News-Medical-Net)
HealthPort, a top-25 company in the healthcare information technology industry, today announced that Florida Hospital, a 2,188 bed hospital system with eight locations across Central Florida, has begun deployment of their release of information (ROI) technology and service solution alongside the organization s Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR).

Munn to lead La. health-care forum (The Advocate)
Published: Jan 12, 2010 – UPDATED: 1:56 p.m. The Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum has hired Cindy Munn as its executive director beginning next month, the group announced today.

Free Webinars Explore the Melding of Medicine, Health IT (American Academy of Family Physicians)
In an effort to give physicians the tools they need to transition to the use of health information technology, or health IT, in their practices, TransforMED, in partnership with the AMA, is launching a series of free weekly webinars. The initiative “Health IT to Support the Doctor-Patient Relationship” begins on Jan. 14 at noon CST and continues each Thursday through Feb. 4.

Vicor Technologies Forms Information Technology Function With Two Senior Hires; New Function to Support Staged Product … (Marketwire)
BOCA RATON, FL–(Marketwire – January 5, 2010) – David H. Fater, CEO of Vicor Technologies, Inc. ( OTCBB : VCRT ), today announced the creation of a formal Information Technology (IT) function with the hiring of Lloyd C. Chesney as Chief Technology Officer and Michael Harwitz as Senior Systems Architect. Both Mssrs. Chesney and Harwitz will be based in the Company’s Boca Raton headquarters …

GE Healthcare’s Centricity Enterprise Receives CCHIT Certification (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BARRINGTON, Ill.—-The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has announced that GE Healthcare IT s Centricity Enterprise Version 6.0 is CCHIT Certified , and meets the Commission s inpatient electronic health record criteria for 2007.

Zynx Health lauds definition of meaningful use of EHR technology (News-Medical-Net)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology have announced that the definition of meaningful use will include the use of evidence-based order sets and clinical decision support at the point of care. This is good news because the peer-reviewed scientific literature …

The Blumenthal bet in health IT (ZDNet)
A variety of approaches will be selected, a variety of vendor groups and technologies, but the aim of the “beacon community” plan is to see whether one community, somewhere, can deliver the promise of health IT — lower costs and high-quality care.

Great Lakes Health Plan Employees Brighten New Year for Local Charities (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DETROIT—-Employees from Great Lakes Health Plan, part of AmeriChoice, the nation s largest Medicaid managed care company, have donated 771 pairs of socks to Matrix Human Services in Detroit and Kalamazoo Gospel Mission.