Bernie Monegain
In an effort to boost blood donations in New York City, Coney Island Hospital has teamed up with Takes All Types to adopt an online approach to recruiting new and younger donors.
The public holds mixed views when it comes to the use of electronic medical records, with most believing it's important to adopt EMR technology and that doing so would improve the country's healthcare system, according to a new survey conducted by National Public Radio, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health.
John Glaser, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare in Boston, has accepted a six-month stint as adviser to David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for healthcare IT.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC staged its grand opening on April 16, with hospital executives touting the new facility as unparalleled among pediatric hospitals nationwide in its level of technological sophistication and resources dedicated to family-centered care.
Montefiore Medical Center's IT subsidiary, Emerging Health Information Technology, has signed a multi-year hosting agreement with the North Shore-LIJ Health System to provide support for a portion of North Shore's computer network.
The Sharp Community Medical Group has gone live with its electronic health record system, called SCMF CONNECT.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and GE Healthcare are teaming up to conduct molecular imaging research aimed at developing personalized treatment for cancer, brain and heart disease.
New York will distribute $60 million for projects that promote the use of health information technology in patient-centered medical homes.
Only 7 percent of hospitals meet Leapfrog medication error prevention (CPOE) standards and few hospitals are meeting mortality standards, according to the 2008 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, released Wednesday.
Consumer appetite for electronic health records, online tools and services continues to grow, according to the results of the 2009 Deloitte Survey of Health Care Consumers.