Archive for October, 2008

Published by patricia on 31 Oct 2008

Regulation Of Electronic Health Records Called For By Case Western Reserve University Professors (Medical News Today)

Regulation Of Electronic Health Records Called For By Case Western Reserve University Professors (Medical News Today)
Cost and security concerns about bringing health care record keeping into the 21st century through electronic health records (EHR)have led to a call for an effective regulatory and oversight system from a pair of Case Western Reserve University professors.

Published by patricia on 30 Oct 2008

Accelrys Announces the Appointment of Larry Ferguson to Its Board of Directors (Centre Daily Times)

Accelrys Announces the Appointment of Larry Ferguson to Its Board of Directors (Centre Daily Times)
Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence solutions, announced today the appointment of Larry Ferguson to its Board of Directors. Mr. Ferguson brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience to Accelrys with both private and publicly held information technology companies.

Published by patricia on 29 Oct 2008

Accounting, IT, office staff seen in demand in ’09 (BizJournals)

Accounting, IT, office staff seen in demand in ’09 (BizJournals)
Accountants, office support workers and information technology specialists will see modest salary increases next year, according to a recently released study.

Published by patricia on 27 Oct 2008

Baptist Health System Deploys Sentillion’s Vergence Solution to Provide Secure Identity and Access Management to 3,000 … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Baptist Health System Deploys Sentillion’s Vergence Solution to Provide Secure Identity and Access Management to 3,000 … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Baptist Health System, one of the largest healthcare systems in Alabama, has gone live with Sentillion’s clinical workstation solution, Vergence . To date, all the intensive care units of its largest hospital are up and running with single sign-on and context management, and deployment to more than 3,000 clinicians system-wide is expected to be completed by the end of 2008.

Published by patricia on 24 Oct 2008

Wall Street Journal Examines Health Care Industry’s Adoption Of Information Technology (Medical News Today)

Wall Street Journal Examines Health Care Industry’s Adoption Of Information Technology (Medical News Today)
The U.S. health care industry “is about to undergo a global revolution driven by a force it can no longer resist: information technology,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Published by patricia on 23 Oct 2008

Wall Street Journal Examines Health Care Industry’s Adoption Of Information Technology (Medical News Today)

Wall Street Journal Examines Health Care Industry’s Adoption Of Information Technology (Medical News Today)
The U.S. health care industry “is about to undergo a global revolution driven by a force it can no longer resist: information technology,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Published by patricia on 22 Oct 2008

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Coverage Of Recent Developments Related To Health Care In The … (Medical News Today)

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Coverage Of Recent Developments Related To Health Care In The … (Medical News Today)
Summaries of several recent developments related to health care issues in the presidential election appear below.Economic Policy Institute report: The health care proposal announced by Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) would prompt many employers to drop health insurance for employees, according to a report released recently by EPI, the Charleston Gazette reports.

Published by patricia on 20 Oct 2008

New healthcare system to improve patient care (Zawya)

New healthcare system to improve patient care (Zawya)
20 October 2008 The UAE Ministry of Health UAE Ministry of Health will be implementing healthcare information technology systems from Cerner Corporation that are designed to improve patient care and the way doctors and nurses perform their jobs.

Published by patricia on 17 Oct 2008

The 7 roadblocks to health IT nirvana (ZDNet)

The 7 roadblocks to health IT nirvana (ZDNet)
We probably need a “Health IT Czar” whose loyalty is to service, unaffiliated with any vendor, in order to get a handle on all this. Absent someone with a whip, these cats won’t be herded.

Published by patricia on 16 Oct 2008

North Hawaii Community Hospital Selects Phoenix Health Systems for Information Technology Management and … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

North Hawaii Community Hospital Selects Phoenix Health Systems for Information Technology Management and … (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Phoenix Health Systems, Inc. , a national healthcare information technology management, consulting and business process company, was recently selected by North Hawaii Community Hospital , a private community hospital in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii to provide IT related management and infrastructure services.

Next »