Bernie Monegain

The country's community pharmacists – and physicians, too – are calling on the government to strengthen e-prescribing requirements, arguing the standards are too low.

Investments in community health centers that provide care for about 15 million people who are poor, underserved and uninsured have helped expand the services, according to new research. The funds sometimes also give technology a boost.

Information technology is playing a pivotal role in the work on the ground in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as Boston-based Partners In Health tends to the sick and the maimed.

The team at MultiCare Health System was exactly going for the prize when it completed its application for the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award. For them, it was all about the process. The goal was to learn and improve.

Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.

Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.

When East Cooper Medical Center in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. moves into its new 140-bed hospital in April, it will roll out new technology in its eight operating rooms to provide a real-time information dashboard style for everyone to see at the same time.

Concord Hospital, a regional medical center and one of the busiest acute care hospitals in New Hampshire, will roll out a new platform to streamline data integration.

Bernie Monegain, editor of Healthcare IT News, interviews William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO of Sharp HealthCare, located in San Diego.

Talk about creating buzz. Just utter the words “meaningful use” and you’ll get an earful. Now that the proposed rules are out, there is hardly anyone in healthcare who does not have something to say about it.