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By Bernie Monegain | 12:01 pm | February 24, 2010
Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.
By Diana Manos | 06:01 pm | February 23, 2010
Jamie Welch, the CIO of the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX) calls the benefits of HIE for participating providers is "astronomical."
By Patty Enrado | 05:55 pm | February 23, 2010
Competition and lost revenue are keeping communities from participating in health information exchanges, according to HIE officials around the country.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:41 pm | February 23, 2010
Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:35 pm | February 23, 2010
When East Cooper Medical Center in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. moves into its new 140-bed hospital in April, it will roll out new technology in its eight operating rooms to provide a real-time information dashboard style for everyone to see at the same time.
By Mike Miliard | 05:31 pm | February 23, 2010
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.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:25 pm | February 23, 2010
Concord Hospital, a regional medical center and one of the busiest acute care hospitals in New Hampshire, will roll out a new platform to streamline data integration.
By Healthcare IT News | 05:19 pm | February 23, 2010
Leaders at the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) announced Tuesday they have published a free business associate agreement to help providers comply with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Bernie Monegain | 05:14 pm | February 23, 2010
Bernie Monegain, editor of Healthcare IT News, interviews William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO of Sharp HealthCare, located in San Diego.
By Neil Rouda | 05:07 pm | February 23, 2010
It’s been nearly two years since I wrote a note, like this one, to appear here, in the opinion pages of Healthcare IT News.