Bernie Monegain

Critical access and rural hospitals will benefit from nearly $20 million in new technical support assistance to help them convert from paper-based medical records to certified electronic health record technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Sept. 10.


Eleven healthcare organizations in New York State will receive a total $109 million in state grants to improve the coordination of healthcare through the use of health information technology.


Maine Medical Center, a 606-bed tertiary care and teaching hospital, part of the seven-hospital MaineHealth System, has begun a 20-month roll out of a new $90 million electronic health record system.

Hospitals are making progress on collecting and reporting healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network, according to a new survey by the Premier healthcare alliance.

For the second year in a row, Detroit Medical Center executives say they have achieved improved patient safety and saved $5 million to boot.

Establishing 60 health Regional Extension Centers across the country to help solo and small physician practices get on board with electronic health records is the right prescription for a system that remains mired in paper. A recent report from eHealth Initiative shows that the centers - called RECs - are off to a slow start.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) is seeking senior healthcare executives to serve on its voluntary Board of Trustees and Board of Commissioners.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is partnering with IBM to market UPMC's "smart" hospital rooms nationwide.


The University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNCHCS) will implement the Lawson Human Resource Management suite, including the Lawson Employee and Manager Self Service application.