Bernie Monegain

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

Banner Health is using new technology to combat sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.

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.

With healthcare reform teetering in Congress, patients, doctors, nurses, insurance companies and employers should be grateful that one critical piece of reform has already begun to work.

Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain interviews Keith Figlioli, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics. The self-proclaimed "data junkie" was a formerly with Eclipsys as vice president of enterprise solutions.

Banner Health, one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the country, is putting technology to work on managing employee productivity.

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.

Most personal health record offerings are not ready for prime time, says Marjorie Martin, general manager for Everyday Health, the parent company of Revolution Health. For consumers, the experience can be laborious and frustrating, she said.

The Revolution Health Web site on Wednesday e-mailed users of personal health records notifying them its service would be discontinued by the end of February.

When it comes to application hosting, healthcare providers are finding greater success working with software vendors than with services firms. Cerner, NaviSite and McKesson scored the highest marks, according to a new KLAS report.