WASHINGTON - John Halamka, MD, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, says the panel, which is part of the American Health Information Community, has developed standa...
ORLANDO, FL - IBM officials believe hospitals and other healthcare providers are starting to get a handle on their IT needs. But they might not know what to do with all that data they're a...
ORLANDO, FL - Royal Philips Electronics will restructure its healthcare informatics division to align its entire portfolio of patient monitoring and clinical information solutions. The...
ORLANDO, FL - With communities of interconnected healthcare providers slowly gaining momentum in New Haven, Conn. and Tampa, Fla., the Center for Community Health Leadership is now looking for a...
ORLANDO, FL - When Misys Healthcare sold its diagnostic systems business to a private equity firm last July, it allowed the Sunquest name to re-emerge from the shadows. Richard At...
Visitors polled at last month's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Annual Conference and Exhibition said Hillary Clinton is the best presidential candidate from either party for h...
Just about 28,000 people passed through the doors of the Orange County Convention Center to attend HIMSS08 this week, according to officials with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Soci...
Steve Case, the former CEO of America Online, described his plan to "revolutionize" the healthcare industry in his Wednesday keynote address to HIMSS08 attendees. "We need to move con...
Standards development is progressing according to schedule and should build momentum, said John Halamka, MD. The chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel...
No projections on future use. No monetization strategy. No walls to keep other technology companies out. That's a business plan? It is if you're Google....
Three healthcare IT vendors announced the creation of the Open eHealth Foundation at last week's Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Fla.
"Breaking down barriers" to change was the predominant theme in U.S. Health and Human Services' Secretary Michael Leavitt's keynote address at HIMSS08 Tuesday morning. Leavitt e...
ORLANDO - Many more advances are needed in the years ahead before sufficient adoption of healthcare IT can be achieved, said National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Robert Kolodne...
InnerWireless, a Richardson, Texas-based provider of converged wireless solutions, has announced strategic partnerships with three vendors to extend clinical support initiatives into new directions....
The National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative and two of Tampa Bay's largest healthcare organizations announced their partnership to bring free electronic prescribing to area physicians at the H...
Healthcare IT executives are likely to think their industry's IT infrastructure is worse than other industries, according to a survey to be released at HIMSS08. CDW Healthcare's Vi...
3M, based in St. Paul, Minn., has announced that it is bringing the Amelior suite of real-time workflow automation solutions from Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS) to its healthcare...
Royal Philips Electronics will restructure its Healthcare Informatics division to align its entire portfolio of patient monitoring and clinical information solutions, company officials announced Monda...
Eclipsys Corporation officials announced Monday morning at HIMSS08 that they have acquired Enterprise Performance Systems, Inc., a vendor of business performance-improvement solutions for healthcare p...
Healthcare IT professionals are the key to solving the problems of the "healthcare mess" in the United States, said Bill Frist, MD, former majority leader of the U.S. Senate and Monday's keynote speak...
