Bernie Monegain
The Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. will use a $2.8 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to create an electronic system to boost the care of women of color with HIV/AIDS.
The Premier healthcare alliance has boosted its ClinicalAdvisor quality benchmarking and regulatory reporting technology to include capabilities focused on Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program.
Phoenix Children's Hospital is now placing most of its medication and non-medication orders electronically through a newly activated computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has slated a "town call" Web conference on Sept. 3 to gather input from the vendor and developer communities on the commission's planned new paths to certification for electronic health record technologies.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee will provide tailored health and wellness information to its members through interactive, automated phone calls.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule requiring certain Web-based businesses to notify consumers when the security of their electronic health information is breached.
Medical students consider technology a 'must have' for their future practice, according to the fourth annual survey by healthcare IT company Epocrates.
Swedish Medical Center, with four hospitals and 40 clinics in and around Seattle, has gotten its arms around patient information by taking charge of its document management. Scanners are a critical piece of the strategy.
The Kettering Health Network, a six-hospital system based in Dayton, Ohio, has committed more than $50 million to implement an electronic health record system, abandoning its best-of-breed strategy for a fully integrated, enterprise-wide system.
It was when Wendy Wolf, MD, talked about the fisherman brought into the emergency room after suffering a stroke on Casco Bay, or the skier unconscious after an accident on the slopes of Sugarloaf, or the woman in the doctor’s office who can’t remember when she last had a mammogram, that brought home just how essential the exchange of information among hospitals and physicians can be.