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By Molly Merrill | 05:27 pm | February 03, 2010
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, a 254-bed hospital serving the North San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys in California, is revamping its healthcare IT with a $500,000 grant from Verizon.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:25 pm | February 03, 2010
His team makes him look good, William A. Spooner said last month in acknowledging he had been named CIO of the Year.
By Molly Merrill | 05:21 pm | February 03, 2010
Providers are airing their concerns about the newly proposed "meaningful use" requirements as they begin to wade through the 700 pages of documents that will help them gain bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
By Eric Wicklund | 05:17 pm | February 03, 2010
A recent merger of two workforce management vendors is designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers improve staffing efficiency and the bottom line.
By Brian Robinson | 05:17 pm | February 03, 2010
Purchase strengthens IBM's ability to provide information sharing services to organizations, tap stimulus windfall.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:16 pm | February 03, 2010
Jan Mathews, director of clinical performance at Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., a suburb of Charlotte, says information technology has been essential to the hospital’s efforts to decrease overall morality rate from 2.75 percent in 2005 to 1.47 percent in 2009.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:12 pm | February 03, 2010
Best-of-breed software systems may no longer be the way to go for emergency departments, KLAS reports.
By Kyle Hardy | 05:10 pm | February 03, 2010
Three hospitals will implement new technology to help stave off healthcare-affiliated infections and improve patient safety.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:07 pm | February 03, 2010
Banner Health is using new technology to combat sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.
By Bernie Monegain | 05:06 pm | February 03, 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.