Electronic Health Records news from FierceCIO

If end users' perceptions of new technologies often appear out of sync with actual performance, they probably are. Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care, figured this to be the case when he Read more...

In a tough economy where Darwinian competition seems to be the name of the game, is collaboration with rivals wise? In the health care business in Wisconsin, some providers are finding it to be so. Read more...

NYU Langone Medical Center is using an infrared light scanning technology to identify patients by the blood flow patterns their palms, one of 10 hospitals around the United States that have deployed Read more...

The U.S. healthcare system is expensive, but it could be less so if data breaches weren't costing it billions of dollars every year. The Ponemon Institute and the security consulting firm ID Expert Read more...

Baptist Health System, which owns and manages four hospitals and 38 clinics in Alabama, has begun deploying electronic health record (EHR) technology as part of a larger clinic integration strategy. Read more...

If there's one sector where the prognosis for IT looks good these days, it's healthcare. The federal government's twin initiatives of economic recovery and healthcare reform are channeling some hefty Read more...

Forrester Research put out an updated report predicting even higher annual growth in IT spending--8.4 percent--than predicted in January. The rosier forecast, by Forrester's Andrew Bartels, is based Read more...

The massive challenges facing healthcare reform may not appear to have much to do with the challenges facing the typical CIO, but in a post in Forbes, Dan Woods describes a very interesting analogy: Read more...

The IT world has been an amazing boon to business, supplying companies with streams of data and information to assess the marketplace, make strategic decisions and informed judgments. But do we have Read more...

The economic stimulus package, approved by Congress, includes billions of dollars to spur the creation of electronic health records, with the lion's share allocated as economic incentives for health Read more...