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By Molly Merrill | 10:00 am | July 14, 2009
Medicare beneficiaries are using the Internet to help manage their health, according to a Kaiser Permanente survey.
By Richard Pizzi | 12:01 pm | July 13, 2009
About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 in ARRA funding over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new study.
By Molly Merrill | 11:53 am | July 13, 2009
Social networking tools are slowly making their way into the curricula of medical and nursing schools, according to a study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
By Molly Merrill | 10:45 am | July 13, 2009
Cook Children's Health Care System, a not-for-profit, pediatric healthcare organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, is partnering with athenhealth and Microsoft to launch a new national clinical platform that aims at improving care for pediatric patients.
By Kyle Hardy | 11:42 am | July 10, 2009
Beloit Memorial Hospital has deployed a new X-ray system in its expanded emergency department to help deal with an increasing patient population.
By Molly Merrill | 10:10 am | July 10, 2009
A battle is brewing between the American Medical Association and Sermo, Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based online physician community.
By Diana Manos | 01:03 pm | July 09, 2009
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday it has posted new ratings on 4,000 hospitals on its "Hospital Compare" Web site, including new mortality and readmission data.
By Molly Merrill | 11:39 am | July 09, 2009
Officials are saying that a virus is to blame for compromising thousands of patient medical records at Alberta Health Services.
By Molly Merrill | 10:42 am | July 09, 2009
Digital mammography is providing a strong return on investment for healthcare providers, according to a new KLAS report.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:16 am | July 09, 2009
GetWellNetwork, Inc., one of the healthcare industry’s largest providers of interactive content for hospitals and their patients, has added several hospitals to its growing list of clients.