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Kathy Mahdoubi, Senior Correspondent | April 08, 2010
Never before pressures on vendors
The ARRA and HITECH Acts are already having a major impact on the health IT industry. The provisions from the ARRA are now more focused on the electronic medical record, but this may expand over time to more fundamental and architectural components of health care IT like PACS.
As president for the consulting firm H.I.S. Professionals, based in Oakton, Va., Bill Bogutski has a unique view of how recent legislation and the promise of funding are playing out.
"The field of health care information technology has been very busy this past year," says Bogutski. "It's just been a blur. We've seen two direct results of the ARRA stimulus and HITECH activities - one is the amount of time it takes to schedule vendor presentations. It's at the point now where it's taking two to three months to line up vendor presentations because of the tremendous demand. Another thing is that implementation is being projected to start 6 to 12 months after contract signing. That's never been the case in the HIS industry."
The new acronym
With health information technologies morphing and becoming more integrated, the industry is sure to outgrow the old terms and usher in more meaningful vocabulary.
"I think the industry is still looking for a better name for the comprehensive radiology information system," says Reznik. "There is still some acronym out there that hasn't been universally accepted yet."
As the electronic health record takes off with the help of vehicles like PACS, RIS and HIS, there are sure to be ongoing matters to address, and numbering among them will certainly be those issues of patient privacy, technological interoperability and the implementation of legislative mandates that may dictate the next generation of medical informatics. If all goes well, access to secure, comprehensive patient data could become the norm in the not-so-distant future.
DOTmed Registered PACS-RIS-HIS Equipment Sales & Service Companies
Names in boldface are Premium Listings.
Domestic
Ken Trotman, Comfort Enterprises, LLC, AL
Mike Battin, PACSHealth, LLC, AZ
Klaus Kraemer, Multi Imaging Systems, Inc., CA
Ted Huss, Medical Imaging Resources, CA
DOTmed certified
Shane Yaghmai, Allied Health Products, CA
Edward Heere, CoActiv Medical, CT
Ronald Lorg, Allied Resource Technology, Inc., FL
David Denholtz, Integrity Medical Systems, Inc., FL
DOTmed certified
DM100
Xiaoyi Wang, Thinking Systems Corporation, FL
Henri Primo, Siemens Healthcare, IL
Katie Meister, NEC Display Solutions, IL
Neal Thompson, JD Imaging Corporation, IL
DM100
Scott Wasson, Radiology Services, LLC, IN
DOTmed certified
Mike Andrews, Hudson Digital Systems, NJ
Kevin Fix, Ultimate Medical Services, Inc., LA
John Stinson, Clear Image Devices, MI
Shanna Flanagan, DMS Health Technologies, ND
Joseph Jenkins, International Imaging, Ltd., NV
JoAnn Linder, Carestream Health, Inc., NY
Brett Schaeffer, NHD, OH
Charles Patti, NCD Medical Corporation, OH
Todd Allman, DR Systems, Inc., PA
Richard Stock, Radiological Imaging Services, PA
DOTmed certified
DM100
Melissa Armstrong, Medrad, PA
Colin Kelley Jr., Kelley X-Ray Co., TN
Paul Shumway, NovaRad Corporation, UT
William P. Bogutski, H.I.S. Professionals, LLC, VA
Dave Dressler, Northwest PACS Network, WA
Julie Pekarek, Merge Healthcare, WI
Greg Whelan, IMCO Technologies, WI
International
Vijay Ramanathan, RamSoft, Inc., Canada
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