Eric Wicklund

The forecast for healthcare these days seems to be cloudy.

University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., part of State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, has two surgery areas – 12 rooms on the fifth floor for adults and four rooms on the third floor for children. And no one there has yet developed the technology to transport equipment instantaneously from one floor to the other, a la Star Trek.

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., is helping a rural health network in Texas automate its financial activities and share clinical data through a community-based electronic medical record.

Welcome to the healthcare version of “Let’s Make a Deal.”

A coalition of smart card industry executives is calling on the government to establish standards for identity management to help prevent the thousands of deaths that occur each year when healthcare providers misidentify a patient

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions has signed two more contracts to provide healthcare IT solutions for healthcare providers and affiliated physicians in four states.

Healthcare providers looking to collect late payments before they become bad debt will soon have a new tool at their disposal.

Promising to “get the data, house the data, mine the data, apply the data and offer solutions,” a team of healthcare veterans has launched Humedica.

From the Rockies to the plains, close to 400 healthcare providers in Colorado will be linked through a new communications platform in what’s being billed as one of the largest healthcare information networks in the nation.

Much like the federal government’s program targeting old automobiles, MedPlexus is setting its sights on old electronic health records and practice management system