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Q&A: Using gaming to reduce healthcare costs at Avivia Healthcare
Everyone in the healthcare business these days is looking for ways to reduce costs, and Avivia Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente, is no exception. For the past six years,
Zero clients speed hospital care, lower energy bills
Doctors and nurses at Seattle Children's Hospital are making use of zero-client devices (also known as ultra-thin clients) to pull up patients' data at their bedsides, and meanwhile the devices are
Q&A: How APM replaced perception with fact at one health care company
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
Hospital boosts security for EMR
Miami Children's Hospital, like many of its ilk, is in the process of deploying electronic medical records technology. As it prepares to replace its older systems and applications, the hospital is
Dell to use tiny Streak to drive deeper into healthcare
Dell is planning to market its tiny Android Streak computer to doctors and hospitals as a way of making greater inroads in the lucrative healthcare vertical, reports ZDNet's Larry Dignan. Healthcare
CMIO touts benefits of specialization
CIOs are becoming more focused on their organizations' business, and their roles and titles are changing accordingly. The healthcare field, for example, is seeing more chief medical information
Healthcare IT faces healthy opportunities
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
Lessons in healthcare reform for CIOs
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:
The long recoup from a data loss
For the past year the news has been filled with reports on lost laptops, stolen data banks and hacking incidents from the government to the private sector. But little is heard after the
Operational excellence saves big bucks
A major healthcare provider initiated an operational-excellence health effort that is reaping rewards across the enterprise. As Cardinal Health's CIO Jody Davids explains, the effort is helping
