Bernie Monegain
John Glaser, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare in Boston, has accepted a six-month stint as adviser to David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for healthcare IT.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC staged its grand opening on April 16, with hospital executives touting the new facility as unparalleled among pediatric hospitals nationwide in its level of technological sophistication and resources dedicated to family-centered care.
Montefiore Medical Center's IT subsidiary, Emerging Health Information Technology, has signed a multi-year hosting agreement with the North Shore-LIJ Health System to provide support for a portion of North Shore's computer network.
The Sharp Community Medical Group has gone live with its electronic health record system, called SCMF CONNECT.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and GE Healthcare are teaming up to conduct molecular imaging research aimed at developing personalized treatment for cancer, brain and heart disease.
New York will distribute $60 million for projects that promote the use of health information technology in patient-centered medical homes.
Only 7 percent of hospitals meet Leapfrog medication error prevention (CPOE) standards and few hospitals are meeting mortality standards, according to the 2008 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, released Wednesday.
Consumer appetite for electronic health records, online tools and services continues to grow, according to the results of the 2009 Deloitte Survey of Health Care Consumers.
Critical care patients at seven of Chicago-based Resurrection Health Care's hospitals are far less likely to develop complications and have extended ICU stays since the health system implemented an advanced information technology system.
An obstetrics application for use on the iPhone has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, says the Texas-based company that created it.