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Purchase strengthens IBM's ability to provide information sharing services to organizations, tap stimulus windfall.

Jan Mathews, director of clinical performance at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, says information technology has been essential to the hospital’s efforts to decrease overall morality rate from 2.75 percent in 2005 to 1.47 percent in 2009.

Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.

Three hospitals will implement new technology to help stave off healthcare-affiliated infections and improve patient safety.

Banner Health is using new technology to combat sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.

Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.

Poor inpatient utilization and in-house inefficiencies are the common culprits behind slow throughput, backed up EDs and lost revenue for hospitals, especially with 60 percent of inpatient admissions coming from the ED.

In an era of healthcare policy reform, it isn’t surprising that 81 percent of the top global healthcare executives worldwide anticipate substantial change in their industry.

With healthcare reform teetering in Congress, patients, doctors, nurses, insurance companies and employers should be grateful that one critical piece of reform has already begun to work.

Healthcare IT News Editor Bernie Monegain interviews Keith Figlioli, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics. The self-proclaimed "data junkie" was a formerly with Eclipsys as vice president of enterprise solutions.