May 8, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Despite its potential, sales of Microsoft Amalga have been limited and its overall KLAS performance score has dropped 14 points in the past two years, from 84.2 to 69.9, revealing a split in customer opinions, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.

May 4, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
The Department of Health and Human Services has contracted with San Francisco-based Archimedes, a healthcare modeling company, to put high-powered mathematical analytics in the hands of its agencies, signaling "a new era of medical decision-making."

May 1, 2012 | Jamie Thompson
HIMSS Europe is seeking nominations for three vacancies on the HIMSS Europe Governing Council, for a three-year term to begin July 1, 2012.

April 24, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Data warehousing and decision support aren't exactly new. "Hospitals have had data warehouses for a long time," says Mary Griskewicz, senior director of health information systems at HIMSS. "I was working at a hospital 15 years ago, and we had one."

April 24, 2012 | Mike Miliard
Panasonic has announced the formation of Panasonic Healthcare Company of North America, consolidating the business operations of the former Panasonic Healthcare Group and the former Sanyo Biomedical Solutions Division.

April 24, 2012 | Upcoming Webinars
Hear from leaders at Parkview Health System and Avaya on how you can leverage mobile devices to improve communications and patient care, while increasing nurse productivity. Leverage the learnings from Parkview as they launched new tools to have the technology find the expert versus having the staff search for the right resources. Consider how mobile technology can allow clinicians to communicate from where ever they are and to share EHR clinical information quickly, easily and securely.

April 16, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Learn more about what is being accomplished in communities that are coordinating healthcare. Jason Colquitt, director of research services from Greenway Medical Technologies, will share insights on how community connectivity is helping provide clearer analytics, improved clinical and financial outcomes and improving the health and quality of life of individuals and the community at large. Rebecca Little, director of operations at Genesis OB/GYN, Tucson, AZ, will share how her practice directly connects to hospitals in her community to share patient data, and how this connectivity is helping increase care coordination.

March 29, 2012 | White Papers
The United States is undergoing a major transformation of its healthcare delivery system, driven by federal health IT investments and healthcare reforms. This content piece features information from a joint presentation at the HIMSS12 Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas in February, where Eric Dishman, General Manager of Health Strategy and Solutions at Intel Corporation, and Jason Hwang, MD, executive director of healthcare at the Innosight Institute, presented on the power of “disruptive innovation” to meet the challenges of transforming the U.S. health sector. Download this paper to read examples of how disruption health IT innovation is driving new care models across the globe.

March 13, 2012 | On Demand Webinars
Across the healthcare industry, we are seeing forward-thinking organizations develop new competencies in anticipation of the opportunity that comes with industry-wide transformation. They are positioning themselves for success. And they are defining the future of healthcare. Will your organization be ready? Register to learn more and listen to the session now!

March 1, 2012 | White Papers
Inside, industry experts examine how health analytics can drastically improve the current state of health care in the US. By integrating and analyzing the vast amounts of data available, the industry will be better equipped to identify at-risk patients, evaluate potential treatment plans, assess individual physicians’ performance and more.

February 28, 2012 | Richard Pizzi
A recent survey of British corporate finance officers indicated the chief information officer position would disappear from the business landscape in the next five years.

January 24, 2012 | Scott Ruehle
Service oriented culture. The very mention of the phrase can cause a variety of reactions in people ranging from the ambiguity of “I think I know what Service is…” to the eye-rolling “Oh, great – another buzzword that we are going to have to suffer through until the next one” mindset.

December 9, 2011 | Jennifer Dennard
With daily news of healthcare mergers and acquisitions coming left and right, it's no surprise that start-ups are also finding firm footing in the industry right now.

November 1, 2011 | John Halamka
When I began my career as a CIO in 1997, success was function of the basics - email delivery, network connectivity, and application functionality. In 2011, CIO success is much more complex to measure.

October 7, 2011 | Shawn Curtiss
Hospitals and health systems are more technically proficient than ever, as they should be. Yet with all these enabling technologies, many healthcare organizations are still plagued by inefficiencies, lackluster quality scores and uncontrolled costs. Why?

June 16, 2011 | Industry News Release
Atlanta-based Business Computer Applications, Inc. (BCA) has been awarded an $8 million dollar task order to provide IT and statistical support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

June 1, 2011 | Industry News Release
Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced the election of Lee Shapiro to its board of directors. Shapiro is president of Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), the leading global provider of electronic health records and other technologies essential to creating a Connected Community of Health.

May 19, 2011 | Industry News Release
GE Healthcare, a leader in perinatal solutions, and PeriGen, Inc., have united to build upon the decision support and monitoring capabilities of GE’s top-rated Centricity* Perinatal suite.

May 10, 2011 | Industry News Release
Visual Healthcare Corp. (the "Company") (NASDAQ OTC: VSHC) announces today that it has entered into an agreement with Sygenics Life Sciences Software (Sygenics LSS) to market a 2nd generation of Lab Automation applications to serve the scientific community. This allows researchers to replace paper-based scientific records and paper-based scrapbooks with more dependable and secure electronic storage capabilities, as well as the ability to instantaneously share information with other scientists of their choice.

May 3, 2011 | Industry News Release
More fragmented and uncoordinated healthcare may be on the horizon thanks to a growing shortage of U.S. healthcare workers. That’s the message from a new poll of healthcare quality experts conducted by ASQ, the world’s largest network of quality resources and experts.