Molly Merrill
The U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System is planning to deploy a diagnostic decision support system across 75 major military hospitals and 461 clinics worldwide.
By posting wait times for its area emergency rooms, the New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is striving to become more transparent.
Kaiser Permanente officials say a partnership with IBM will provide management for its data center operations for members, patients and physicians.
Epidemiologists and computer scientists at the University of Iowa have successfully piloted a low-cost, green technology for automatically tracking the use of hand hygiene at hospitals.
Social networking is taking off and experts say hospitals shouldn’t be left behind.
Surgeons at the Henry Ford Health System, a Detroit-based non-profit healthcare system, used Twitter last month to educate the public on a live robotic surgery.
Add electronic medical records to the wares giant retailer Wal-Mart plans to offer soon. Wal-Mart executives announced last month they would have EMRs available for sale by spring.
The issue around ownership of electronic health information must be addressed before it can be used to improve healthcare, says a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, a California-based independent physician organization and the lead participant in the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange, has implemented a community-wide virtual health record for its physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, will use radio frequency identification to track patient files.