Skip to main content

News

By Bernie Monegain | 11:31 am | January 12, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to create jobs by employing information technology to improve healthcare.
By Molly Merrill | 11:11 am | January 12, 2009
Michigan CardioVascular Institute, a Saginaw, Mich.-based group practice of cardiologists and heart surgeons, is poised to implement an electronic health records and practice management system in preparation for a pay-for-performance environment.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:33 pm | January 09, 2009
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:39 am | January 09, 2009
The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.
By Molly Merrill | 11:36 am | January 09, 2009
Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare IT standards development organization, has passed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved standard that specifies basic functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record system.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:07 am | January 09, 2009
Blaming a stagnant economy that's forcing hospitals to curtail expenditures, Cardinal Health on Thursday lowered its fiscal-year guidance for 2009.
By Jack Beaudoin | 11:43 am | January 08, 2009
Healthcare IT News, the news source for healthcare information technology, has launched a brand new Web site for 2009 and beyond.
By Chip Means | 09:30 am | January 08, 2009
As we sat down to plan our new Web site, we knew the most valuable improvement we could make would be to increase our readers' involvement and interaction with us and each other.
By Jeff Marion | 08:39 am | January 08, 2009
Pop the hood on our new Web site and you'll find one very powerful engine. It's called Drupal, a free, open-source platform that powers all of our content entry.
By Bernie Monegain | 01:10 am | January 08, 2009
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform.