Bernie Monegain

With IT budgets squeezed, physician practices and hospitals are looking to IT vendors for ways to keep their technology projects on track - but those vendors are offering few creative solutions, according to a new report from KLAS.

Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has published on its Web site the criteria and test scripts developed during 2009, along with a newly developed "Concise Guide to CCHIT Criteria."

Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.

The Chesapeake Hospital Authority is ready to roll out a fully integrated clinical and revenue management information technology system at the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, a 310-bed hospital in Chesapeake, Va.

A GE project dubbed “healthymagination” will put $3 billion over six years into research and development to launch at least 100 innovations aimed at providing better healthcare while cutting costs.

Seattle Radiologists, a regional, high-volume radiology group that has been in operation for 45 years, is improving its workflow with new technology.

As the government’s work on healthcare reform gathers steam on Capitol Hill, America’s Health Insurance Plans is shining the spotlight on private-sector strategies it says are critical for change – among them the adoption of electronic health records.

The members of America’s Health Insurance Plans assemble June 3-5 for their annual meeting – Institute 2009 – with health reform center stage.

Echo Vision, Inc., can do a patient’s heart good by providing cardio and vascular diagnostic services across Oregon and the southern part of Washington state.