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.
Vendors may suggest that many successful health information exchanges have been built with their technology, but the reality is different, according to a new report from KLAS.
More than 30 organizations from across Canada are forming partnerships in a $15.5 million series of initiatives aimed at preventing chronic disease – a challenge that the United States is also tackling. Electronic health records play a critical role in Canada's plan.
Christiana Care Health System executives see their recent launch of computerized provider order entry as a giant leap forward toward a comprehensive electronic health record.
HealthSouth, which provides inpatient rehabilitative services in 26 states, has implemented an automated recruitment platform to streamline the company's recruiting process and increase efficiency and privacy.
Recent stimulus-induced EHR deals show sooner-than-expected adoption, especially in the hospital sector, according to investment firm Piper Jaffrey.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has unveiled The National Health Security Strategy, focused on protecting people's health during a large-scale emergency.
Standards organization Health Level Seven – HL7 changed its name to Health Level Seven International to represent its focus on the development of global healthcare IT standards.
His team makes him look good, William A. Spooner said last month in acknowledging he had been named CIO of the Year.
Jan Mathews, director of clinical performance at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, says information technology has been essential to the hospital’s efforts to decrease overall morality rate from 2.75 percent in 2005 to 1.47 percent in 2009.