Bernie Monegain
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has published on its Web site the criteria and test scripts developed during 2009, along with a newly developed "Concise Guide to CCHIT Criteria."
Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.
The Chesapeake Hospital Authority is ready to roll out a fully integrated clinical and revenue management information technology system at the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, a 310-bed hospital in Chesapeake, Va.
A GE project dubbed “healthymagination” will put $3 billion over six years into research and development to launch at least 100 innovations aimed at providing better healthcare while cutting costs.
Seattle Radiologists, a regional, high-volume radiology group that has been in operation for 45 years, is improving its workflow with new technology.
As the government’s work on healthcare reform gathers steam on Capitol Hill, America’s Health Insurance Plans is shining the spotlight on private-sector strategies it says are critical for change – among them the adoption of electronic health records.
The members of America’s Health Insurance Plans assemble June 3-5 for their annual meeting – Institute 2009 – with health reform center stage.
Echo Vision, Inc., can do a patient’s heart good by providing cardio and vascular diagnostic services across Oregon and the southern part of Washington state.
Clinical research that used to take months now takes minutes at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, thanks to new software that accesses data in electronic medical records.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of “meaningful use” for healthcare information technology.