Bernie Monegain

Concord Hospital, a regional medical center and one of the busiest acute care hospitals in New Hampshire, will roll out a new platform to streamline data integration.

Bernie Monegain, editor of Healthcare IT News, interviews William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO of Sharp HealthCare, located in San Diego.

Talk about creating buzz. Just utter the words “meaningful use” and you’ll get an earful. Now that the proposed rules are out, there is hardly anyone in healthcare who does not have something to say about it.

Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and added $8.1 million to healthcare costs in 2006 alone, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Paul Pitcher, analyst with Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS, ventures that not much seems to have changed in the single sign-on market since KLAS published his report in February 2008.

GE, athenahealth and Sermo are among the top 10 innovative healthcare companies named by Fast Company. Kaiser Permanente is the sole healthcare provider on the list.

Shared Health, Tennessee's largest public/private health information exchange (HIE) has tapped MEDai, an Elsevier company, to provide an interoperable, HIE platform to the state.

Members of a federal health IT advisory group last week proposed to relax the number of measures that would be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced Friday nearly $1 billion in grant awards for regional extension center, health information exchange and healthcare IT training.

The Internet has considerably more influence over consumer health decisions and actions than traditional channels like print, TV and radio, according to a new report from Manhattan Research.