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IBM’s acquisition of Initiate Systems, the Chicago master data management (MDM) company, signals a significant foray into the MDM sphere for IBM, and executives say the acquisition will better establish IBM's offerings to the healthcare IT field.
The forecast for healthcare these days seems to be cloudy.
University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., part of State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, has two surgery areas – 12 rooms on the fifth floor for adults and four rooms on the third floor for children. And no one there has yet developed the technology to transport equipment instantaneously from one floor to the other, a la Star Trek.
Several major health insurers are part of a coalition that is promoting texting as a way to keep expectant women, new moms and their babies healthy.
James Cameron's sci-fi movie Avatar centers on a Marine who, through a nifty bit of futuristic technology, is able to slip into a virtual body and explore an extraterrestrial world.
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession – only much, much worse.
In an unprecedented partnership between an insurance company and an online social network, Aetna has teamed with OneRecovery.com, a Web site that serves as an Internet community for people recovering from alcohol, drug abuse, and eating disorders, connecting them with each other and with healthcare professionals.
Computerized physician order entry systems are continuing to evolve in a direction intended to make the workflow process smoother for physicians. In other words, for CPOE, the emphasis is being taken off the “C” and placed on the “P”, system vendors say.
Since implementing an EHR system in 1997, Heart of Texas Community Health Center, one of the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award winners, has tripled the number of its patients, expanded from a single location to 10 sites, and shown improvement in important quality indicators.
It may seem unlikely today, but within the next 10 years there will be widespread use of electronic health records across the country, the nation's health IT chief predicts.