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The Washington Post on Saturday reported on how the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) exerted its influence on the Obama administration and Congress to promote healthcare information technology.
Children's Medical Center in Dallas has become the first hospital to tweet in real time during a transplant surgery.
The pledge to cut $2 trillion in healthcare costs, discussed at a White House meeting last week between President Barack Obama and industry leaders, is back on the table, and information technology is expected to underlie some of the proposals.
The promises made to President Obama by several healthcare industry groups to control healthcare costs were overstated by the president, some of the groups are saying. Many of the savings under discussion would employ information technology as a way to shave expenses.
The Health IT Standards Committee, headed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, kicked off Friday, facing what members called challenging deadlines.
Children's Medical Center in Dallas will provide live Twitter updates from its operating room Monday, while 3-year-old John Gilbreath receives a kidney transplant from his father.
Healthcare imaging vendors offering next-generation computed tomography (CT) scanners are hard-pressed to convince healthcare providers of the value, concludes a new report from Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS.
IBM executives are touting the company's new "stream computing" software as representing "a significant advancement in information technology."
R. Andrew Eckert, who as CEO of the Eclipsys Corp. saw the company through a restructuring in 2006 and back to prosperity, is stepping down from the helm of the Atlanta-based company and will be replaced by a well-known industry insider.
A group of well-known healthcare IT vendors on Thursday launched a joint effort to educate physicians across the country on the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.