Bill Siwicki

Bill Siwicki is Managing Editor of Healthcare IT News. Bill has 35 years of experience in journalism, with nearly 25 years experience in healthcare IT.

By Bill Siwicki 03:05 pm February 09, 2016
Health IT giant Cerner Corp. has scored a $50.7 million data hosting contract from U.S. Department of Defense as part of its Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization, according to official documents.
Because social media is so dynamic, the potential for its use in healthcare is very exciting.
By Bill Siwicki 09:05 am February 09, 2016
Canadian and U.S. researchers formed a collaborative to explore social media in public health, with plans to generate a practice roadmap. The endpoint: enabling public health entities to harness social media to better help deliver effective intervention strategies.
VisualDX uses 'sympticons,' pictured here, to make it easy for practitioners to understand the key differences between each disease.
By Bill Siwicki 10:17 am February 04, 2016
VisualDx will debut a new version of its clinical decision support system at HIMSS16. The company is growing its image- and graphics-oriented software from supporting skin, eye and oral care decision-making to include more chief medical complaints.
By Bill Siwicki 09:40 am February 04, 2016
Advanced degrees and credentials literally pay off for health IT professionals.
San Diego Health Connect health information exchange said it has turned its performance around using identity validation technology.
By Bill Siwicki 09:40 am February 03, 2016
After facing an unacceptable 70 percent patient matching rate, the San Diego Health Connect health information exchange said it has turned its performance around using identity validation technology to better match patients and in the process clean up its master patient index.
By Bill Siwicki 04:42 pm February 01, 2016
A new module will enable users to snap pictures with smartphones and tablets and then saving them to the Carestream platform and integrating them with an EHR.
By Bill Siwicki 04:07 pm January 29, 2016
Rockford Health System in Rockford, Illinois is using the Health Level 7 data exchange standard to see both the real-time fetal monitoring strip and the patient’s electronic record on the same computer screen.
The HIMSS14 show floor. (Staff photo)
By Bill Siwicki 08:27 am January 29, 2016
Iatric Systems intends to unwrap a set of analytics services to help healthcare providers meet federal mandates at HIMSS16.
By Bill Siwicki 10:22 am January 28, 2016
MedicFP LLC, a new vendor that focuses on combating phantom billing and other healthcare fraud, and Fujitsu will debut an identity validation product that scans palm veins at HIMSS16.
The Oracle headquarters at Redwood Shores, Calif. (Wikipedia)
By Bill Siwicki 08:46 am January 27, 2016
The new software aims to help researchers, molecular pathologists and clinicians work together more easily to improve care.

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