Health Information Technology News

What Health Insurers Can Do Now To Cut Costs (Forbes)
They can learn from large corporations that have found real savings.

Alegent Health Introduces Design Clinicals’ Medstracker Software To Enhance Patient Medication Safety (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Five Alegent Health hospitals implement MedsTracker for electronic medication reconciliation. MedsTracker meets the Joint Commission Patient Safety Goal for medication reconciliation and helps satisfy most of the criteria needed to demonstrate meaningful use and secure ARRA incentive payments and avoid penalties.

Novel material paves the way for next-generation information technology (University of Queensland)
UQ researchers have successfully demonstrated a futuristic semiconductor technology that will pave the way for the next generation of electrical and information technology systems.

Reform Debate Makes Health Stocks Cheap (TheStreet.com)
Adriana Posada, manager of the American Beacon Small Cap Value Fund, says uncertainty surrounding health care reform has made stocks in the industry cheap.

Australian hospitals urged to use more information technology (ABC Radio Australia)
A visiting US Government advisor says Australian hospitals should make greater use of information technology to improve patients health and safety.

Health Care Partnership Evolves into GTA Health Information Collaborative (Newswise)
An information management and information technology (IM/IT) partnership between 16 health care organizations in the Greater Toronto Area is getting a facelift. With the increasing size of the SIMS Partnership, members have elected to revise the group’s structure to a more formal ‘association’ and change the name to the GTA Health Information Collaborative (HIC). A sub-set of the group that …

TriZetto Joins Center for Health Value Innovation, Signals Role of Healthcare Information Technology in Accelerating … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ST. LOUIS & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—-The Center for Health Value Innovation , the nation s premier information exchange for value-based design, today announced that The TriZetto Group, Inc. has joined its growing membership of healthcare industry innovators.

CareTech Solutions Enhances its Information Technology Offerings for Hospitals (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CareTech Solutions , an information technology and Web products and services company serving U.S. hospitals and health systems, will showcase its full IT service and eHealth Web portfolio during HIMSS10 annual conference and exhibition at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Harris Corporation Delivers Release of CONNECT 2.3, Built Under Contract with the Federal Health Architecture (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
HIMSS ‘10, Booth #3133) — Harris Corporation has released the newest version of CONNECT software to enable healthcare organizations to securely exchange patient information on the Nationwide Health Information Network . The CONNECT solution was developed under contract for the Federal Health Architecture project within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

TriZetto Joins Center for Health Value Innovation, Signals Role of Healthcare Information Technology in Accelerating … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
ST. LOUIS & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—-The Center for Health Value Innovation , the nation s premier information exchange for value-based design, today announced that The TriZetto Group, Inc. has joined its growing membership of healthcare industry innovators.