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By Molly Merrill | 05:02 pm | March 25, 2009
The 2008 HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence recognized three practices in its ambulatory category for their achievements using electronic health records.
By Molly Merrill | 04:54 pm | March 25, 2009
The U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System is planning to deploy a diagnostic decision support system across 75 major military hospitals and 461 clinics worldwide.
By Molly Merrill | 04:52 pm | March 25, 2009
By posting wait times for its area emergency rooms, the New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is striving to become more transparent.
By Molly Merrill | 04:48 pm | March 25, 2009
Kaiser Permanente officials say a partnership with IBM will provide management for its data center operations for members, patients and physicians.
By Molly Merrill | 04:44 pm | March 25, 2009
Epidemiologists and computer scientists at the University of Iowa have successfully piloted a low-cost, green technology for automatically tracking the use of hand hygiene at hospitals.
By Bernie Monegain | 04:42 pm | March 25, 2009
To ensure clinicians have access to key clinical systems on demand, Partners HealthCare, one of the largest integrated healthcare systems in the country, will roll out technology to manage the performance of its critical systems.
By Patty Enrado | 04:36 pm | March 25, 2009
The economic decline is continuing to pummel hospitals in the form of reduction of reimbursements, rise of uninsured patients and decrease in number of elective procedures for insured patients.
By Bernie Monegain | 04:32 pm | March 25, 2009
Virtua Health, a four-hospital system in New Jersey, is rolling out technology that pulls data onto one platform to give clinicians timely critical information on their patients.
By Bernie Monegain | 04:28 pm | March 25, 2009
IBM researchers are testing a 3-D version of an electronic patient record, complete with avatar, at Thy-Mors Hospital in northern Denmark.
By Molly Merrill | 04:24 pm | March 25, 2009
Social networking is taking off and experts say hospitals shouldn’t be left behind.