February 17, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
A comparison of HIMSS Analytics data from September 2011 to December 2011 suggests that a number of hospital segments showed increased capability to achieve Stage 1 meaningful use.

February 15, 2012 | Jamie Thompson
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has announced the go-live of its clinical portal across the trust.

February 13, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will test in New York its standards and services for electronic and distributed population health queries.

February 3, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1.

February 2, 2012 | Jamie Thompson
IMS MAXIMS has implemented the latest version of its Irish patient administration system across more than 50 healthcare organizations in the country.

January 5, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare professionals need to focus on quality of patient care and on securing the patient data, even in the most remote locations. Network services provided to remote facilities, clinics, and offices depend less on the size of the location and more on the functions being performed at that location. Learn more about Branch on Demand, a cloud-enabled networking solution for remote locations that simplifies provisioning, management, security, and troubleshooting for these deployments.

January 3, 2012 | White Papers
The efficient management of healthcare facilities has always presented challenges between delivering technology that meets the needs of staff and increases efficiencies, while contributing to the overall healing environment. Increasingly, the Healthcare Facilities Manager and IT Manager roles are beginning to converge, becoming the pivotal point where infrastructure and information technology come together. This paper reviews the top four trends in healthcare facilities management and how IT plays a key role.

November 23, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Driven by a history of innovation, Intel is focusing its game-changing technologies on transforming healthcare to enable connected, coordinated, cost-effective care based on each person's health goals and history, enhancing prevention, focusing treatment, and improving outcomes.

November 1, 2011 | White Papers
The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing a game-changing transformation in the way it delivers care. The “meaningful use” requirements under the HITECH Act, the new payment and delivery reform model under the PPACA and the consumer movement are all converging to help create a system that improves the quality of care and clinical outcomes, drives workflow efficiencies, and reduces and manages cost. Forward-thinking healthcare providers, payers and suppliers are taking up the challenge and looking to health IT to enable the new delivery system. Healthcare stakeholders are embracing mobility technology as a viable solution. Learn how Verizon is leveraging its scale and reach to deliver a diverse set of wireless technology solutions for healthcare providers, payers and suppliers that enable communication, collaboration and secure information flow.

October 3, 2011 | White Papers
This white paper examines the obstacles preventing the move away from fax machines, and the benefits of having a communications system that integrates faxed documents into healthcare systems and solutions.

December 6, 2011 | Carl Natale
HealthLeaders Media has one of the more interesting reports available.

November 15, 2011 | Geoff Webb
The healthcare industry is under constant pressure to streamline the sharing and availability of information, while at the same time maintaining ever-more rigorous controls over patient privacy, and of course, reducing costs at the same time. Therefore cloud computing offers some significant opportunities, perhaps even more significant than in many other industries.

October 12, 2011 | John Halamka
I've written about the implications of staff bringing their own devices to the office instead of using corporate desktops and the challenges of keeping mobile devices secure.

September 14, 2011 | John Halamka
No one really knows what an Accountable Care Organization is, but many provider organizations want to be one.

September 2, 2011 | Jennifer Dennard
Though it was longer ago than I care to admit, I can remember checking out every copy of the Choose Your Own Adventure series my local library had to offer. Imagine my surprise when I found a similar concept had been applied to the curriculum at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine.

September 8, 2011 | Industry News Release
Physicians are highly engaged with social media for both personal and professional use, according to a 4,033-clinician study authored and conducted by QuantiaMD, the largest mobile and online physician community, and Care Continuum Alliance, an international association for wellness, prevention and care management.

September 7, 2011 | Industry News Release
Two Indianapolis-based companies have partnered to launch a social media service for health care organizations. CoreTech Revolution LLC and Cast a Bigger Net LLC have formed Social Media & Medicine to help with legal, policy and training issues.

June 1, 2011 | Industry News Release
Nuesoft Technologies Inc. and Point and Click Solutions, Inc. today announced their collaboration on The College Health Technology Pathway Program, an initiative to educate college health professionals about the risks and flaws of hosted application service provider systems (ASPs), which are not designed for mission critical health care software applications, and thus leave users' data vulnerable.

May 26, 2011 | Industry News Release
Earlier this year, President Obama outlined his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system that is simpler and smarter and that protects the health and safety of the American people in a pragmatic and cost-effective way. He called for a change in culture to incorporate ongoing review of regulations into our operations. We can target rules already on the books to increase flexibility and remove regulations that are out-of-date, unnecessary, excessively burdensome, or in conflict with other rules.

May 12, 2011 | Industry News Release
The Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to advance the work of practicing physicians and improve the quality of healthcare for all Americans, awarded a $1 million dollar grant to Health Leads, an organization devoted to helping vulnerable families by arranging for college volunteers to partner with physicians in hospitals across the country.