Stressing the benefits of early action - and illustrating just how much farther ahead in adoption Massachusetts is than many other parts of the country - two significant local users of healthcare IT offered insights from their experiences in Boston on Tuesday.
Speaking in Boston Tuesday at the Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Roadshow, Vish Sankaran, director for the Federal Health Architecture Program, outlined his vision for the government's role in promoting broader healthcare IT adoption via the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN).
Philips Telehealth Solutions has been chosen to provide telehealth monitors to SunCrest Healthcare, a Madison, Tenn.-based provider of home health, companion care, and therapy.
Capsule has announced the release of its low acuity application, a key component of their Enterprise Device Connectivity Solution, enabled by the Capsule Neuron platform.
IBM has announced its purchase of Initiate Systems, the Chicago master data management (MDM) company. The move signals a further foray into the MDM sphere for IBM. Executives say the acquisition will better establish IBM's offerings to the healthcare IT field.
Heralding another important use for electronic medical records, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to require that radiology information be logged on health record systems such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault.
Doctors who have shopped for healthcare software have sometimes come to regret their purchases, according to a new story reported by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.
InnerWireless has deployed a distributed antenna system for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new White Oak campus.
A survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell has found that the data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.
The information security service SecureWorks, which protects 82 healthcare companies in the United States, reported Tuesday that attempted hacker attacks aimed at its clients doubled in the fourth quarter of 2009.
