Cover Story
Organized Security
To address compliance and IT security, Piedmont Healthcare chose to establish baseline metrics for IT security risk.
Emergency Department Information Systems
Keep Patients on Track in the ED
Electronic health-record implementation provides dramatic productivity improvements, $600,000 in annual savings, and a return on investment of slightly more than two years.
Wireless/Mobile Computing
Telehealth Network Connects Rural Nebraska
Wireless mobile-computing workstations are instrumental in bringing three dialysis facilities together for videoconferencing.
Wireless/Mobile Computing
The Future of Patient Monitoring
Hospitals are rapidly adopting wireless technologies that have the potential to change the way doctors, nurses and healthcare institutions operate.
Health Information Exchange
Wisconsin HIE Optimizes Community Care
Communication among ED clinicians and federally qualified health centers in the Milwaukee area was improved, including real-time access to patient historical-encounter data.
Health Information Exchange
The Bottom-up Approach to HIEs
Bypassing third-party governance allows Spectrum Health to meet physician-practice needs across three hospital systems.
Viewpoint
New e-News Focus
By Ken Anderberg, Publisher/Editorial Director
Thought Leaders
IT Leaders: Prepare for Personalized Medicine
by Paul Murphy and Marcia A. Kean
Pioneers in Healthcare IT
Prospective Payment and the New Perspective
by John Whitehead
Another View
Healthcare Reform – The Impact on IT
By Robert Blades
