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With bold projections that we are on the cusp of the biggest IT spending growth in a decade, new predictions from industry analysts show how much, and on which technologies, hospitals will acquire, modernize or optimize IT.

Medical groups are seeking customizable and cloud-based systems and emerging technologies like speech-recognition capabilities.

Using the device, called a Beam, Miramont Family Medicine now sees more patients than ever – enabling physicians to be in more than one of its four locations at the same time.

The emergency department EHR enables caregivers to document with much greater speed, which helped knock down the door-to-doc wait time from 67 minutes to less than 30.

CHS, already facing financial troubles, has been accused of breaching contractual obligations with the tech giant, by continuing the use of Microsoft products at some of its recently sold hospitals.

The private equity firm sees a big opportunity for growth in the sector, offering further evidence that value-based reimbursement is here to stay.

The typical manner in which hospital leaders construct their budgets is by clinical and ancillary departments, which can hinder innovation.

The Maryland insurer is already involved in a lawsuit stemming from a 2014 breach of about 1.1 million members.

The first EHR vendor to build a native app for iOS devices now aims to make it easier for small and large practices to customize personal hardware packages for their offices, including MacBooks, Apple TV and more.

The alliance is one of the first, if not the first, national blockchain alliances for healthcare, says Optum engineer.