Despite the high cost of implementation for electronic health records, a majority of executives at large healthcare organizations believe the applications will eventually produce savings, recent surve...
A new study from Manhattan Research reveals that many physician practices remain skeptical about the benefits associated with point-of-care technologies."We must work to break down barriers of skeptic...
Congressional bipartisan support remains strong for legislation supporting healthcare information technology, says Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House. Speaking at a...
A new breed of software promises to help hospitals make decisions on staffing based on patient care needs. With most hospitals facing a shortage of qualified nursing person...
"A beautiful example of pure patient safety." That's how one doctor described the industry's response to last week'sunexpected blockbuster recall of Merck's popular inflamm...
Pilot project to analyze claims attachments The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved funding for a proposal by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Fo...
The directors of CareDecision and KCWG Pharmaceutical Solutions, CareGeneration and FutureCom Global have proposed a merger to form NEXT GENeSYS Corp. The merger is expecte...
Emergency help for technology choices EMedHome.com, an educational Web site in emergency medicine, launched its new technology resource page. Until now, emerg...
Predictive modeling (PM) is no longer a nascent market, with PM-strategy conferences being organized, more sophisticated RFPs being sent out and more interest among health plans....
At first glance, the formula for quantifying a return on investment for electronic medical records looks like an Albert Einstein equation: ROI = TCO. But quantifying the total cost of ownership for EM...
A new organization, with several industry heavyweights participating, is hoping to provide information and support to boost the cause of electronic prescribing.Café Rx also hopes to become the voice...
A new organization, with several industry heavyweights participating, is hoping to provide information and support to boost the cause of electronic prescribing. Café Rx al...
A computer-aided detection (CAD) system can significantly increase the rate of breast cancer detection, according to a study published in the August issue of the journal Radiology....
Connecting for Health's vision for turning the concept of a National Healthcare Information Infrastructure from talk to reality does not include a central database. Nor does it call for a national ide...
Connecting for Health's vision for turning the concept of a National Healthcare Information Infrastructure from talk to reality does not include a central database. Nor does it call for a national ide...
By its very nature, the insurance enrollment process can be an ordeal – for the insurer as well as the insured. Public programs are that much more taxing because of eligibility standards requiri...
Tom Auer, MD, president and medical director of Community Care Physicians here in New York's capital city sees the designation of Albany as the next Bridges to Excellence site as a boon to healthcare....
Growing implementation of digital imaging systems and other information technologies will increase the need for storage capacity and data management.As many as 40 percent of hospitals and integrated d...
Steve Lieber, President/CEO of HIMSS, is a soft-spoken man from a small town in Arkansas, and I'm a boisterous guy, with a big booming voice, from the suburbs of New York. So wh...
