An article from Associated Press posted on the front page of MSN poses the question, Will Cell Phones Replace PCs? I hardly think that will happen anytime soon, but I continue to be impressed by the growing array of applications and services that are...

Next Monday, October 24th, it will be my honor to address the National Association for Home Care and Hospice at their annual meeting in Seattle. More than 5000 people are expected to attend the 24th annual conference. This year's theme "Claiming the Future...

During the years I worked in the television industry as a physician broadcaster, one of my news editors was always talking about "the change train". He would explain how the television industry was being transformed and that the change train was coming...

In his 2004 State of the Union Address, President Bush proclaimed that we’ll have an electronic health record for most Americans within 10 years. Soon after, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology was established and...

According to the US Census Bureau , 55 percent of American households have access to the internet. That's triple the percentage reported in 1997. I suspect the true figure is even higher since the survey is based on census information from 2003. As might...

On behalf of our entire Healthcare and Life Sciences team, it is my pleasure to welcome you to our health blog. We've created this space to explore, inform, debate and discuss the many issues and opportunities surrounding the adoption and implementation...

Jim Lynch, R.N. is quoted by Health Data Management's on-line news service on remarks he recently made during a presentation at the 77th Convention and Exhibit of the American Health Information Management Association . In his address, "Electronic Medical...

Hats off to Dr. Barry Chaiken for his thoughtful op-ed piece, " The Pied Piper of Clinical IT ", in this week's Healthcare's Most Wired On-line Magazine Dr. Chaiken rightfully points out the importance of clinical leadership and consideration of clinicians...