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By Bernie Monegain | 10:23 am | May 13, 2010
Editor Bernie Monegain speaks with Karen Bell, MD, the newly-appointed chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:18 am | May 13, 2010
The Psilos Group, a healthcare venture capital firm, has spotlighted information and medical technology as critical to healthcare reform, insisting that expanded adoption and investment activity in IT will produce big results.
By Eric Wicklund | 08:49 am | May 13, 2010
Vidyo, Inc., is giving healthcare executives something to talk about as they head to San Antonio for next week’s American Telemedicine Association conference.
By Eric Wicklund | 07:55 am | May 13, 2010
The key to healthcare reform, say some experts, lies in collaboration. But how does one get hospitals and physicians to work with each other? Some physicians at the Health Technology Transformation Spring Summit say hospitals "don't want to play."
By GHIT Staff | 08:58 pm | May 12, 2010
New legislation is expected to speed development of a statewide health information exchange in Wisconsin.
By Mary Mosquera | 08:48 pm | May 12, 2010
Administration wants to help create trusted means to move healthcare and other business transactions onto the Internet.
By Mike Miliard | 11:58 am | May 12, 2010
Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, one of the leading academic medical centers of the mid-South and the flagship of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has selected Allscripts Care Management's discharge planning solution to ensure continuity of care and improve the efficiency of the hospital patient discharge process.
By Molly Merrill | 11:37 am | May 12, 2010
A new bill signed into law is expected to boost the creation of a statewide health information exchange in Wisconsin.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:00 am | May 12, 2010
Some hospitals are greener than others, and Practice Greenhealth, an organization that promotes sustainable healthcare practices throughout hospitals – including in the information technology arena – has identified the Premier healthcare alliance and 61 of its member hospitals as leaders.
By Kyle Hardy | 10:51 am | May 12, 2010
A new report based on the European healthcare market shows providers adopting more business analytics solutions as a result of a decrease in patient visits from pay-for-performance programs.