Bernie Monegain
Eastern Maine Medical Center, the recipient of the 2008 Davies Award, is responsible for the care of two-thirds of the 33,414 square miles of the easternmost state, with the Atlantic at one side and Canada at the top.
Just as thousands of healthcare IT professionals – techies, policy wonks and luminaries, an actor and an astronaut – sail into The Windy City for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference this month, there’s a new wind at their back.
The Department of Health and Human Services has created the Office of Recovery Act Coordination to help ensure the timely, organized and transparent distribution of economic stimulus funds managed by HHS.
HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, has recognized 15 hospitals with its first Stage 7 Award.
The people behind Paperfree Tampa Bay foresee the $18 million initiative as President Barack Obama’s vision made good. They have set their sights for the 10-county, 8,000-physician e-prescribing pilot launched Monday on no less than 100 percent adoption. They’ll achieve it, they say, by going to physicians door-to-door and providing the help they need to get on board.
Healthcare research firm KLAS has released the KLAS EMR Toolkit to help providers make informed choices regarding stimulus-related technology decisions.
Remote patient monitoring technology enables healthcare providers to treat patients before their conditions becomes more acute, according to a new study from the Spyglass Consulting Group.
Johns Hopkins Hospital will roll out dashboard technology in its operating rooms to improve patient care and safety and boost efficiency.
eClinicalWorks, which recently struck a deal with Wal-Mart to sell its electronic medical records software, is the subject of a new report from KLAS, which examines the Wesborough, Mass.-based healthcare IT firm's rapid rise.
The people behind Paperfree Tampa Bay foresee the $18 million initiative as President Barack Obama's vision made good. They have set their sights for the 10-county, 8,000-physician e-prescribing pilot launched Monday on no less than 100 percent adoption. They'll achieve it, they say, by going to physicians door-to-door and providing the help they need to get on board.