Bernie Monegain

Frost & Sullivan estimates the Health Information Technology market by revenue in 2008, in APAC (Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Australia) was close to USD5.04 billion with an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.8 percent from 2005-2008.

Beauregard Memorial Hospital, a 60-bed, acute care and community hospital, has selected open-source technology to automate its medical records.

The Obama adminstration's chief for healthcare IT technology David Blumenthal, MD, was on the healthcare IT message from dawn to dusk Thursday - a part of the White House campaign to save its troubled healthcare reform plans.

An EHR program that cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent has also kept patients healthy two years later, according to a new study.

Several leading academic medical centers and community health systems have formed a coalition to join the debate over the direction of healthcare information technology.

Maine has launched what officials are calling the largest statewide health information exchange in the nation that uses clinical data. And the Obama administration’s healthcare IT chief says it could be a model for the rest of the country even as Connecticut, New York, Maryland Massachusetts are launching launch their own HIE initiatives this summer.

Executives at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a three-campus integrated health system in southeastern North Carolina, say new technology has given them real-time visibility into the end-user experience of their clinicians.

Calling its role in the healthcare IT realm "mission accomplished," officials at the National Health Alliance for Health Information Technology will end a seven-year run.

A new IBM study reveals that one in four Americans have not scheduled a "wellness" visit within the last year - due, in part, to paperwork.

Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, managed by the Cleveland Clinic, has gone live with an electronic imaging system to manage the storage, retrieval and viewing of radiological images.