Collingwood General & Marine (G&M) Hospital, in Ontario, is set to install bedside computers from Lincor Solutions to provide staff and patients with access to clinical and multimedia applications.

If the question used to be if IT could improve healthcare, its shifting now to how much can IT improve care. A recent review of literature from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT revealed fairly positive study results related to implementation of health IT, with a predominant focus on EHRs and computeized physician order entry (CPOE) systems.

OnCallData has launched medication reconciliation and e-prescribing mobile applications for the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices.The apps complement OnCallData's new Community Health Portal, which provides all stakeholders in the prescribing process with a central hub for managing prescriptions.

Bioxydyn is developing an MRI tool to provide non-invasive regional assessments of lung ventilation/perfusion ratio and measures of changes in pulmonary vascular function.

Chronic diseases are out of control in this country. Basically, people dont take care of themselves, said Ernest Carter, MD, PhD, founder and director of Howard University TeleHealth Sciences and Advanced Technology Center, and senior physician informaticist at Westat, of Rockville, Md. Despite that assessment, health IT can have a major role in managing chronic diseases, said Carter, speaking at the National eHealth Collaboratives Joint Stakeholder Forum March 9.  

The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury have outlined the steps that states may pursue in order to receive a State Innovation Waiver under the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Howard C. Bauchner, MD, of the Boston University School of Medicine, will become the next Journal of American Medical Association editor-in-chief on July 1. Bauchner will be the 16th editor in the journals 127-year history.

Eastland Memorial Hospital is implementing Prognosis Health Information Systems' ChartAccess Comprehensive EHR to help meet meaningful use incentives.