Mike Miliard
Analysts are bullish after the investors meeting held Thursday by Cerner, the Kansas City maker of EMR and CPOE systems.
RTLS vendor Versus Technology has announced that CancerCare of Maine, operated by Eastern Maine Medical Center, has selected the Versus Advantages solution for its new, state-of-the-art facility in Brewer.
Healthcare IT workers are among the biggest users of smart phones and other mobile technology, but addressing the security needs of such devices remains a concern, according to a new survey.
Quest Diagnostics, the Madison, N.J.-based provider of clinical laboratory services, and Surescripts, of Alexandria, Va. and St. Paul, Minn., which operates the country’s largest electronic prescribing network, will collaborate on an integrated service meant to make lab and pharmacy data more easily accessible to doctors and clinicians.
The findings of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey point towards encouraging news in the year ahead, indicating an increase in health IT spending as providers strive to meet the government's meaningful use stipulations.
Medicity Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new "Health 4.0" platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times.
Social media and evolving business models have completely changed job recruitment, and getting the best healthcare IT talent in the 21st century will require employers to adapt to a completely new talent landscape, said Dan DeMaioNewton, director of strategy and business development at Monster Worldwide, in a session Tuesday at HIMSS.
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse took the stage to deliver the opening keynote address of HIMSS10 on Monday morning. His core message: It is absolutely essential that healthcare providers embrace and make full use of the technological advances of the 21st century - especially wireless communication technology.
After announcing that it would be postponing the release of its fourth quarter financial results, Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, Inc. (ATHN), which provides Web-based billing services to providers, saw its shares fall 13 percent in pre-market trading on Friday.
Allscripts, of Chicago, has announced that McLaren Medical Group of Flint, Mich. has selected its electronic health record for its 150 physicians.