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HIMSS launches Web site focused on health IT value
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has released the HIMSS Health IT Value Suite, a Web-based collection of quantitative and qualitative data designed to help health care providers, lawmakers, and others research the value of health information technology.
The suite is intended to be a comprehensive knowledge repository that offers a common vocabulary to classify, quantify, and discuss real-world examples of health IT value.
Using user input in the form of narratives about how health care organizations have realized the value of health IT, the Web site is developing a library of patient care-focused data. The suite offers answers to such questions as: How does health IT improve patient care? How do we know health IT works? Can others achieve the same type or degree of value?
As the library grows, HIMSS plans to aggregate and analyze the data for patterns of success.
The value suite is available on the HIMSS Web site at www.himss.org.
Pathologist group joins Xifin’s digital pathology network
Xifin, which recently purchased PathCentral, has reported that Affiliated Pathologists Medical Group will participate in Xifin Pro.net, formerly the PathCentral Professional Network, an online information exchange and digital consultation forum.
Affiliated Pathologists has service locations in California, Arizona, and Oregon.
Xifin, 858-793-5700
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Dr. Aller is director of informatics and clinical professor in the Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He can be reached at raller@usc.edu. Hal Weiner is president of Weiner Consulting Services, LLC, Florence, Ore. He can be reached at hal@weinerconsulting.com.