Kelly Mehler

With even more seniors than Florida, the Pine Tree State's Medicaid woes threaten health insurance coverage for as many as 65,000 citizens, not all of them retirees, either.

This Session Tweet recaps Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's keynote speech on Monday morning at HIMSS11.

In the session "Emerging IT Leaders: Strategies for the Next Level of Healthcare IT Leadership," Kim Slocum, president of KDS Consulting, and Kenneth Kleinberg, senior research director of the Advisory Board Company, illuminated the organization-level aspects of advancing healthcare IT.

Clinical Solutions, a decision support and clinical knowledge solutions healthcare organization, has announced the implementation of Aberdeen, Scotland's first pharmacy walk-in clinic for minor injuries.

The United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) has applied the new '111' phone number for access to non-emergency national healthcare services.

Shin Kong Hospital, one of Taiwan's biggest private hospitals, has upgraded its Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) with high-quality medical displays provided by Barco. The decision to upgrade was made after a patient's unseen kidney stone was found during an evaluation of the hi-res system.

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. It is the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve the Stage 7 designation, and the only hospital in Asia to do so.

CSC's first customer outside of Denmark for its LABKA II Laboratory Information System will be Blekinge county in Sweden. The system will be used to support the Karlskrona and Karlshamn hospitals within the Swedish province administrative county, providing healthcare professionals with a more efficient, safer laboratory information service.