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Technology that helps keep more eyes and minds on patients in the intensive care unit has meant that critical care patients in seven Chicago-based hospitals have avoided complications that lead to extended hospital stays.

The 20th Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, released at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference last month showed the economy is having an impact on IT budgets, staffing and projects. However, many respondents completed the survey before the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law on Feb. 17.

Executives at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital leaders say the new electronic personal health record they launched last month is the first of its kind deployed by a major medical institution.

Steven Seltzer, MD, who heads the radiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital here, sees unlimited opportunity for improving patient care resulting from a new research partnership with GE Healthcare.

The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint interoperable electronic medical record system.

Commentary by Carla Corkern, chief executive officer at Talyst

Editor Bernie Monegain interview Paul Tang, MD

Commentary from ITelagen CEO John O'Keefe

Associate Editor Molly Merrill’s April 10 online story “Blumenthal says HITECH faces challenges,” about ONC chief David Blumenthal’s article in the New England Journal of Medicine, yielded two detailed reader comments focused on the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.

Editorial from Editor Bernie Monegain