PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute's Top 10 health industry issues in 2010 puts healthcare cost control at the head of the list as the overarching theme for the year ahead.
Telecommunications provider Etisalat and GE Healthcare have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic healthcare alliance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The declining global economy is impacting the IT industry, according to a forecast from market research firm Gartner, worldwide IT spending will total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 3.8 percent decline from 2008 revenue of nearly $3.4 trillion.
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Perot Systems and China Telecom have formed a partnership to generate IT solutions for the healthcare industry in China.
Xerox has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.4 billion.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.