Bernie Monegain
An engaged front-line team, supported by an electronic health record and a clinical care registry, is credited with reducing the deaths of patients with coronary health disease by 73 percent, according to the results of a Colorado program piloted by Kaiser Permanente.
Emageon, which provides technology for hospitals, healthcare networks and imaging facilities, says it and other defendants will settle a shareholder lawsuit filed against them in connection with the planned acquisition by AMICAS.
John Glaser, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare in Boston, says he should know by the end of the week whether a six-month stint as advisor to healthcare IT czar David Blumenthal, MD, is a go.
Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain interviews Patricia Skarulis, Vice Presidet and CIO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Online diabetes management programs may lead to improved patient knowledge, engagement and accountability, as well as better communication between patient and doctor, according to a new study by the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare.
To ensure clinicians have access to key clinical systems on demand, Partners HealthCare, one of the largest integrated healthcare systems in the country, will roll out technology to manage the performance of its critical systems.
Virtua Health, a four-hospital system in New Jersey, is rolling out technology that pulls data onto one platform to give clinicians timely critical information on their patients.
IBM researchers are testing a 3-D version of an electronic patient record, complete with avatar, at Thy-Mors Hospital in northern Denmark.
Eastern Maine Medical Center, the recipient of the 2008 Davies Award, is responsible for the care of two-thirds of the 33,414 square miles of the easternmost state, with the Atlantic at one side and Canada at the top.
Just as thousands of healthcare IT professionals – techies, policy wonks and luminaries, an actor and an astronaut – sail into The Windy City for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference this month, there’s a new wind at their back.