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Providence Health Services lost information on 365,000 patients after 10 backup tapes and disks were stolen from the back of an employee's minivan. Now, 12 months and $7 million later, the health-care provider remains mired in the aftermath. Here's
Industry Focus: Healthcare IT
The War on Healthcare
In the expensive, confused world of healthcare IT, the slightly less-convoluted world of military IT might be the right model to follow.
Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
Innovations 2006: Information technology is a priority for hospitals, but with many of them facing a difficult financial environment exacerbated by the ballooning ranks of the uninsured investing in new IT systems may have to wait.
Health IT Innovations Organize People, Not Data
If 2004 was rightly hailed as beginning of the dot.gov boom in health IT, 2005 must be hailed as the year of committees.
GE Healthcare, MobileAccess Pair Up for Single Wireless Infrastructure
Giant GE Healthcare has teamed up with MobileAccess to enable hospitals to use common infrastructure for their wireless applications, such as cell phones, pagers, public safety radio and Wi-Fi.
Grants Encourage Public Health IT
Twenty-one grants of up to $100,000 were recently awarded to state and local health departments and public health institutes.
Health IT Groups: Anti-Corruption Rules Stall Technology
According to health IT proponents and organizations, exceptions to anti-kickback laws do not do much to calm hospitals' fears about helping community physicians adopt health information technology.
Intel Takes Center Stage at Aging Conference
With a keynote from Intel chairman Craig Barrett, technology aimed at seniors took a place of prominence at this week's White House Conference on Aging.
Wireless Implant Monitors Aneurysms
Wireless pressure sensors are being used to warn doctors that a blood vessel is liable to burst.
New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web
Instead of finding relevant Web sites, NeuroCommons.org would find other researchers' datasets and protocols, as well as working models of how genes, proteins and brain regions interact.
Dog Genome Successfully Sequenced
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard recently announced that it has completed sequencing the genome of the domestic dog and that based on its outstanding research its primary benefactor has doubled the organization's funding to $200 million.
What Health IT Won't Do
It is policy, not just technology that is needed to cure U.S. health care ills.
Feds to Push Health IT Forward in 2006
Innovations 2006 Analysis: New prototypes for a national health information exchange system and a certification system for health IT products are expected to help this fledgling industry segment move forward in the coming y
IT Could Help Ailing Health Care Systems
Health care systems across the developed world are struggling to coordinate care and keep patients informed about what their medications do.
'Wired for Health' Bill Approved
The Senate has passed a bill to help make health IT a reality. It's estimated to cost $650 million by the end of the decade and would establish a public-private committee to enforce technology standards.
DoD Unveils Global EMR System
About 60 percent of the military are now on an electronic medical records system that functions worldwide. The military recently put on a public demonstration of the system, called AHLTA.
Study: Paying Doctors More for Better Care Seems to Work
Doctors will provide higher quality care when given financial incentives to do so, concludes a study of seven so-called pay-for-performance programs. However, it's still not clear & whether the return on investment and the quality gains outweigh the financ
'Smart' Buildings to Guide Future First Responders
& Intelligent& building systems may someday allow firefighters and other first responders to better respond to emergencies by providing information such as building floor plans and real-time data from motion, heat, biochemical and other sensors and video c
Government Awards $18.6 Million to Share Health Information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded four contracts to consortia that will figure out how doctors at different health care sites can share medical information.