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Billed as "a one of a kind" event, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will host a national healthcare IT conference Thursday and Friday that is drawing some of the most prominent figures in the industry.
Chicago-based HIMSS – the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – will take an anchor spot in a new Medical Trade Center in Nashville that is being billed as "a global headquarters for healthcare events."
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is working in partnership with IT provider Carefx Corp. on a pilot project to improve and simplify the process of placing pathology orders at the point of care.
Hospedia, a UK-based provider of patient bedside entertainment, has decided to renew its patient bedside terminals in more than 150 NHS hospitals across the UK with a new contract with JAOtech.
Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech solutions, will start four project implementations for its trust-wide, computer aided medical transcription solution (CAMT), eScription.
At the American Hospital Association Conference on Monday, chief information officers at some of the most wired hospitals in the country said they would be hard pressed to qualify for stimulus package healthcare IT incentives by next year.
GE Healthcare and Dübendorf, Switzerland-based Ascom Wireless Solutions have announced plans to launch a wireless hospital-wide messaging system, designed to improve workflow and communication for healthcare providers.
Vish Sankaran, who has headed up the Federal Health Architecture program to much acclaim from industry insiders, will step down to seek other opportunities. Sankaran sent an e-mail this morning to friends and colleagues.
The average patient's health in the United States is dependent on at least 200 pieces of paper in about 19 different locations, according to a new study.
Federal Health Architecture director Vish Sankaran announces his departure as interoperability project reaches maturity.