Molly Merrill

The recent success of telehealth programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show a boon for the technology, especially in treating patients with chronic care conditions.

Eric K. Shinseki, a retired Army general, was sworn in Thursday as the seventh Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Clara Maass Medical Center, a 465-bed community hospital in Belleville, N.J., that's affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, is boosting health information exchange for its physicians.

A new study by clinicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center shows that the use of a remote monitoring technology coupled with a clinician notification system can boost patient outcomes as well as reduce costs.

West Virginia University Hospitals went live this weekend with Merlin, a $90 million electronic medical records project, as part of its "Wave 2" implementation.

Physicians at Tomball Regional Medical Center are using mobile devices to receive real-time data about their patients. They say the technology will improve the quality of care by helping them to respond quicker to patients' needs.

The 2009 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study opened online Thursday.

The RAND Corporation has launched an online tool that provides policymakers and interested parties with a resource to help understand and evaluate the effects of healthcare reform.

A report from the National Research Council says efforts aimed at the nationwide deployment of HIT will not be sufficient to achieve medical leaders' vision of healthcare in the 21st Century and may even set back the cause.

Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute will use real-time reminders to conduct a clinical trial on patient adherence and clinical outcomes for people with glaucoma.