Bernie Monegain

Summa Health System, a healthcare network that serves a five county region in northeast Ohio, has gone live with Sentillion's single sign-on technology for more than 4,000 caregivers.

President Obama's healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal, MD, was on hand Friday as Maine announced it will go live this summer with the country's largest statewide health information exchange.

Cerner Corp.'s second quarter earnings were up 24 percent in the second quarter, though the company reported flat revenue - $403.8 million - compared with the same quarter a year ago.

Although the government's pandemic plans rely on telework to carry out their functions, several federal, state and local agencies reported little or no testing of their information technology capability, according to the Government Accountability Office.

President Barack Obama told participants in an AARP tele-town hall Tuesday that electronic health records will help put an end to the inefficiencies they have experienced in healthcare.

Health Robotics has embarked on a joint venture with U.S.-based i.v.SOFT to market, implement, and support the i.v.SOFT Workflow Engine and related software automation modules to hospitals and infusion centers in North America.

The American Health Information Management Association on Tuesday opened a global services office in Brussels, Belgium.

Independence Blue Cross is providing digital alerts to physicians and specialists through a new messaging tool called Clinical Alerts.

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a network of hospitals in Philadelphia, Tulsa, Okla., and suburban Chicago and Phoenix, has upgraded its technology infrastructure with servers designed to increase system performance, uptime and reliability.

St. Barnabas Hospital will roll out a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system as a foundation to establishing an electronic health record in its acute care environments.