Mike Miliard
The findings of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey point towards encouraging news in the year ahead, indicating an increase in health IT spending as providers strive to meet the government's meaningful use stipulations.
Social media and evolving business models have completely changed job recruitment, and getting the best healthcare IT talent in the 21st century will require employers to adapt to a completely new talent landscape, said Dan DeMaioNewton, director of strategy and business development at Monster Worldwide, in a session Tuesday at HIMSS.
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse took the stage to deliver the opening keynote address of HIMSS10 on Monday morning. His core message: It is absolutely essential that healthcare providers embrace and make full use of the technological advances of the 21st century - especially wireless communication technology.
IBM’s acquisition of Initiate Systems, the Chicago master data management (MDM) company, signals a significant foray into the MDM sphere for IBM, and executives say the acquisition will better establish IBM's offerings to the healthcare IT field.
James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.
In an unprecedented partnership between an insurance company and an online social network, Aetna has teamed with OneRecovery.com, a Web site that serves as an Internet community for people recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, and eating disorders, connecting them with each other and with healthcare professionals.
The reports out of Haiti are staggering. Some doctors estimate that perhaps 200,000 survivors of the massive January earthquake face the loss of one or more limb. Many observers have called the island "a nation of amputees."
The information security service SecureWorks, which protects 82 healthcare companies in the United States, reported last month that attempted hacker attacks aimed at its clients doubled in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them, a recent survey found.