July/August 2011 Features

September 30, 2011

Building a mammoth federal EHR: Tech is the easy part

The joint electronic health record (EHR) that the Department of Defense and VA are creating is not the first open source project a federal health agency has undertaken -- but it is the largest and arguably most important.
September 30, 2011

Invited or not, tablets are coming to your workplace (July/August 2011)

Health IT professionals don't need an analyst report to know that tablet computing devices are catching on -- a morning rush-hour train ride suffices just fine to prove that point.
September 30, 2011

Telehealth heads toward the mainstream (July/August 2011)

When the Ford Motor Company announced plans in mid-May to partner with at least three companies to develop healthcare apps for the company's car-based platform, telemedicine experts around the country offered a hesitant smile. Could this be the big break they've been waiting for?
August 31, 2011

VBP: Can you get there on today's IT? (July/August 2011)

For the nation's hospitals, information requirements of the federal government's imminent reimbursement reform initiative called value-based purchasing are starting out easy. Deceptively easy.