Medical offices owned by hospitals and health systems are the leaders in adopting EHR technology, according to the latest results of an ongoing survey by SK&A, a Cegedim company.

A group of 10 leading U.S. hospitals and healthcare systems have teamed up with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare on the Hand-off Communications Project, to use new methods to find the causes of and put a stop to dangerous and potentially deadly breakdowns in patient care.

Zebra Technologies, a developer of printing and identification technologies, and Honeywell have joined forces to provide mobile computing, scanning and printing solutions to resellers and partners in healthcare.

The Obama Administration didnt fare as well as last year in the 2010 privacy report card from public interest research center Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

Alert Notification has joined the Verizon Medical Data Exchange to share digital health information between physicians and healthcare organizations.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Oct. 20 the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) recommendations to HHS on medical loss ratio were achievable for insurers and would help keep premiums lower.

Every year, Health Imaging & IT does a deep-dive into the results of our annual survey to unravel the details of how imaging and IT decision-makers are grappling with the complex demands of operating and managing a radiology department or imaging center.

Northeastern University has joined the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of teaching hospitals, research labs and engineering schools in the Boston area.