Dear Healthcare IT Insider,
From a healthcare IT perspective, the first quarter of the year is a busy one. With the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual meeting and the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) just weeks apart, lots of new products are introduced and company announcements made.
No matter how well written or how significant to the healthcare IT industry, the content of corporate press releases is seldom read with enthusiasm. Not so for press releases from Extormity, whose recipients include more than 10,000 people who've voluntarily signed up to receive them. AuntMinnie.com editors are among the avid fans, but regrettably we can't publish these gems. Extormity is a fictitious company, and for almost three years the identities of those responsible have been anyone's guess.
Extormity executives were invited to speak at the HIMSS meeting this year, and its creators decided it was time to reveal their identities. The Insider Exclusive for this newsletter tells the complete story of the serious rationale for and history behind this long-running farce. We think that you will enjoy the article.
On a very serious subject, digital imaging did not fare well in the first draft proposal of recommended stage 2 meaningful use requirements. Read a summary of the proposed recommendations as they relate to imaging informatics, along with comments and recommendations for changes by 40 medical societies.
As members of the Healthcare IT Digital Community who attended HIMSS 2011, we noticed that while imaging informatics products and services were seen in the exhibition halls, the subject was absent from the educational program. Contributing writer Michael J. Cannavo and I offer our perceptions: Click here and here to read them.
