Mike Miliard

IBM’s acquisition of Initiate Systems, the Chicago master data management (MDM) company, signals a significant foray into the MDM sphere for IBM, and executives say the acquisition will better establish IBM's offerings to the healthcare IT field.

James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.

Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.

In an unprecedented partnership between an insurance company and an online social network, Aetna has teamed with OneRecovery.com, a Web site that serves as an Internet community for people recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, and eating disorders, connecting them with each other and with healthcare professionals.

The reports out of Haiti are staggering. Some doctors estimate that perhaps 200,000 survivors of the massive January earthquake face the loss of one or more limb. Many observers have called the island "a nation of amputees."

GE Healthcare, Intel, and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to experiment with a new prototype for healthcare delivery, bringing care into the home for patients at risk for re-hospitalization.

Data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them, a recent survey found.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, GE Healthcare is playing an important role, offering what it says is the "most comprehensive IT solution for healthcare support" in the history of the games.

Eclipsys, the Atlanta-based health software and services company, has beaten expectations for the fourth quarter of 2009, posting adjusted earnings of 17 cents per share when analysts, on average, had predicted that number to be 12 cents.