Stacy Lawrence

Nurse managers traditionally have used agencies to find qualified nurses and other hourly staff to fill in on their wards. But with the nursing shortage of the past several years, temporary staffing needs and the costs associated with filling them have skyrocketed. A hospital developed a site in 2000 to help nurse managers more effectively […]

Urged on by clients—mostly large health care provider organizations such as Childrens Hospital of Orange County and the Phoenix Childrens Hospital—consultant firm Capgemini recently released a white paper analyzing the next steps toward instituting EHRs (electronic health records). Provider organizations are wondering, How do I do this? said Lewis Redd, national practice leader for Capgemini […]

As co-founder of Renaissance Health, an innovative prototype of a small physician practice affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Pranav Kothari has set about trying improve patients treatment. “Health care today doesnt serve patients as well as it could,” he said. “Revolutionizing the art of personal health care” is the tagline for Arlington, Mass.-based Renaissance […]

The largest private funder of research on Alzheimers disease, the Alzheimers Association, has partnered with Intel Corp. to award grants to researchers working to use everyday technologies to meet the daily needs of people with the disease and their caretakers. Of the 4.5 million Americans living with Alzheimers disease today, 70 percent of them live […]

The health IT market in the United States is expected to stagnate this year with a slight decline in spending, according to recently released figures from market research analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. Oddly enough, the drain of institutional resources away from commercial IT solutions toward training and staff to ensure compliance with HIPAA (the […]

A study released this week in the journal Cancer Research announced strides in the fight against early-stage ovarian cancer with the discovery of biomarkers and the development of tools to detect it. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine performed the study in collaboration with diagnostic company Ciphergens Biomarker Discovery Center. Researchers discovered three novel proteins associated […]

The Mayo Clinic and IBM recently announced a broad collaboration to advance patient care and genomic research through a series of technology initiatives. Although the two institutions have been partners since 2001, this plan is intended to allow the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit health care organization based in Rochester, Minn., to uniquely integrate IT systems […]

Health care information technology professionals arent that familiar with recent health IT initiatives, and their provider organizations are barely starting to integrate health IT. Thats according to a recent survey by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a group dedicated to providing leadership on health IT issues. In an attempt to assess health care professionals […]

A bill was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday to help better integrate information technology into health care. The bill, introduced by Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, D-R.I., is titled the “Josie King Act” in honor of an 18-month-old infant who died as a result of preventable medical errors. A series of steps […]

Nine communities throughout the United States have been awarded funding totaling more than $2 million in support of local projects in electronic health information exchange. Sponsored through the Connecting Communities for Better Health program, which is funded by the independent, non-profit Foundation for eHealth Initiative, this is reportedly the first public-private partnership to further the […]