Bernie Monegain
The University of California's San Diego Medical Center will expand its use of speech-recognition technology to several facilities, allowing physicians to include real-time speech recognition in documenting electronic health records.
Linda Kloss, the CEO of the American Health Information Management Association, will step down effective March 31, 2010, the organization announced Friday.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has launched the first certification program designed specifically for healthcare CIOs.
The Lewin Group, a healthcare consulting firm, has launched The Lewin Group Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research.
The Cardinal Health Foundation awarded $1 million in grant funding for new IT-related programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City and Geisinger Health in rural Philadlephia took the spotlight last month when President Barack Obama included them in a talk he gave in Green Bay, Wis.
A Seattle-based company that has built and is operating 13 hospitals in Asia is poised to grow by 18 more in Malaysia, India and Vietnam by the end of 2011, and it could serve as inspiration across the United States on how to do more with less.
Many of us probably have had our fill of talk about “meaningful use.” Perhaps some of us thought we would have the last word on it on June 16 when the federal Health IT Policy Committee provided some recommended criteria to the nation’s healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal.
A new imaging E-ordering coalition has launched a national initiative to promote healthcare information technology-enabled decision-support (e-Ordering) as a way to ensure that all patients receive the most medically appropriate diagnostic imaging test for their specific condition.
As Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) sees it, Massachusetts should serve as an e-prescribing model for the rest of the country.