HIMMS 2009 which starts this weekend (April 4th, 2009) and runs till next Wednesday (April 9, 2009) is offering a special symposium tract on Clinical Engineering/IT Leadership titled “Clinical Engineering and IT Leadership Symposium: Navigating the Shared Clinical Engineering and IT Work-Space”.
Here are the details on the CE/IT Symposium:
Today, clinical engineers are being charged with [...]

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ACCE (American College of Clinical Engineering) and HIMSS (The Healthcare Information and Management System Society) have joined together to conduct a study on Medical Device Interface with Electronic Medical Record Systems.
ACCE and HIMSS are asking Clinical/Biomedical Engineering Departments in the US to join the study.
Press Release:
Reviewing the Impact of Medical Device Data on Patient Care
 
 
HIMSS [...]

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ACCE and HIMSS are at it again. This time they have teamed up to study the impact of medical device data on patient care.
Heres the Press Release:

Reviewing the Impact of Medical Device Data on Patient Care
 
 
HIMSS Analytics and American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) align to study
information technology applications for medical devices at healthcare organizations
CHICAGO [...]

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CE-IT Community the joint project by AAMI, ACCE, and HIMSS has released what i guess you can call a powerpoint presentation of their townhall meeting.
CE-IT Townhall Meeting
They have also release information about their survey and its results. The survey which surveyed 470 CE and IT professionals was developed to identify the needs facing the respective [...]

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The CE-IT Collaborative by ACCE, AAMI, and HIMSS has launched a new website titled “CE-IT Community: A Clinical Engineering/IT Collaboration.
About The CE-IT Community:
In February 2008, leaders of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) joined forces to [...]

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From the HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo About Page:
About the Event
The HIMSS Virtual Conference & Expo is not a Web Seminar; it is a fully interactive event that incorporates online learning, live chat, active movement in and out of exhibit booths and sessions, vendor presentations, contests and more. Because the conference is 100 percent virtual, you [...]

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From HIMSS:
Learn more about the 2007 accomplishments of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in the Year-in-Review video now posted on the “About HIMSS” page of the Society’s Web site. The nine-minute video provides a visual summary of HIMSS initiatives throughout the year. Beginning with the 2007 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, the [...]

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Don’t be surprised, you may be seeing this headline sometime in the near future.
Google announced at this years HIMSS Confernence that it is entering the patient data/medical records/health information field via its Google Health portal.
Check out the Google’s Keynote Address by Eric Schmidt from HIMSS

I wonder how they will comply with HIPAA?
 What do you think?

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24×7 Magazine  offers a glossary of Healthcare IT terms.
As IT terminology goes the article is a good starting point for those who are just starting to get acquainted with Healthcare IT.
For those seeking more information on Healthcare IT check out  Healthcare IT News’s Webinars, HIMSS, HL7, and HITSphere.
The Essential Health Care IT Glossary from 24×7 Magazine

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Panasonic introduced a new line of laptops at 2008 HIMSS conference in Orlando, Fla. The new line is an extension to Panasonics Toughbook line but is made specially for healthcare. .
“The newest addition to the Toughbook family is the Toughbook T7—a lightweight tablet alternative for everyday use by clinicians, technicians and home care professionals regardless [...]

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