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By Jamie Thompson | 09:26 am | February 25, 2010
The two-day InnovHealth summit brings together the Middle East's leading healthcare professionals to discuss medical research, technological development, healthcare product solutions, and more.
By Mary Mosquera | 12:59 am | February 25, 2010
Health IT Standards Committee recommends balance between flexibility and specific guidance in EHR standards.
By GHIT Staff | 05:52 pm | February 24, 2010
Three-year contract extends HP's involvement with 18 county health and welfare programs.
By Nancy McCallum | 05:05 pm | February 24, 2010
Total security in an IT infrastructure is ideal, but it's not always the reality. Here's a list of where healthcare IT data breaches are most frequently found, according to the Ponemon Institute.
By Healthcare IT News | 05:01 pm | February 24, 2010
Last month’s bankruptcy filing by one of the nation’s largest medical transcription providers could touch off a bidding war for the company’s assets.
By Eric Wicklund | 04:58 pm | February 24, 2010
Today’s hospitals are being designed with mobility in mind, making it essential that physicians and nurses have access to patient data at a moment’s notice from anywhere in the facility.
By Mike Miliard | 04:56 pm | February 24, 2010
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.
By Eric Wicklund | 04:53 pm | February 24, 2010
The forecast for healthcare these days seems to be cloudy.
By Eric Wicklund | 04:50 pm | February 24, 2010
University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., part of State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, has two surgery areas – 12 rooms on the fifth floor for adults and four rooms on the third floor for children. And no one there has yet developed the technology to transport equipment instantaneously from one floor to the other, a la Star Trek.
By Molly Merrill | 04:47 pm | February 24, 2010
Several major health insurers are part of a coalition that is promoting texting as a way to keep expectant women, new moms and their babies healthy.