Bernie Monegain

Researchers at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and UC Irvine will monitor the day-to-day health of low-birth-weight babies and their parents as part of a project designed to combat chronic illnesses associated with low-weight births.

The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.

The market for electronic medical record systems in North America will exceed $5.4 billion by 2015, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts.

The country's community pharmacists – and physicians, too – are calling on the government to strengthen e-prescribing requirements, arguing the standards are too low.

Investments in community health centers that provide care for about 15 million people who are poor, underserved and uninsured have helped expand the services, according to new research. The funds sometimes also give technology a boost.

Information technology is playing a pivotal role in the work on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Boston-based Partners In Health tends to the sick and the maimed.

The team at MultiCare Health System was exactly going for the prize when it completed its application for the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award. For them, it was all about the process. The goal was to learn and improve.

Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.

Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.

When East Cooper Medical Center in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. moves into its new 140-bed hospital in April, it will roll out new technology in its eight operating rooms to provide a real-time information dashboard style for everyone to see at the same time.