It’s difficult for a small- to medium-sized hospital to be looking at a $40 million expenditure for an EMR system. Do you feel that you had to give up something to go with OpenVista or do you have any regrets?

Not yet. We started integrated testing this morning. As of midday, it’s going very well. It looks like it’s a system that will work for us. Read More »

CIOs haven’t had much authority, historically, over the medical side of healthcare, but “meaningful use” of IT—the centerpiece of the estimated $27 billion earmarked for health IT in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)—is shifting more responsibility to IT departments at hospitals and other healthcare organizations and giving technology executives a more strategic role. Read More »

On a mission to modernize, the US government is eyeing an Internet-based healthcare system for easy sharing of health related data between doctors, medical institutions and patients. As part of this initiative, the government hopes to move all medical records onlinewhere doctors can quickly and securely access them. Read More »

Cheers went up on Monday night, moments after Dr. Albert J. Puerini Jr. hit the “send” button on his computer in Cranston, transferring some of a patient’s medical information to a gastroenterologist in Providence. Puerini could hear the huzzahs in the background when he called to confirm receipt. Read More »

City University London’s Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) has launched a research programme and policy challenge paper, to explore how NHS IT services can be improved and made more cost-effective through a combination of open standards, open source software, open systems interfaces and agile development.  Read More »

As the vote in the Senate to repeal the healthcare reform law failed today, Silicon Valley played host to a discussion on real innovation for our healthcare system, the powerful potential of data to radically change the way healthcare is delivered. Read More »

...this time, I came upon the fact that there were now a couple of companies that had gotten the Vista system from the VA [the federal Veterans Administration health system], through Freedom of Information.

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Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) and SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT) had a collaboration on a mobile healthcare project to enable screening and early detection of chronic diseases in India. Said Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, NH, "The opportunities are unlimited and by using technology, we will enable provision of high quality medical care at minimal price." Read More »

Trust is an essential human attribute and virtue. When we are born, we are completely helpless and at the mercy of others. We instinctively trust that someone will look after us, nurture us, protect us. Being trusting and being trustworthy are central tenets of what it means to be a human being. Read More »