Mike Miliard
Mike Miliard is Executive Editor of Healthcare IT News. He focuses on topics such as interoperability, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, analytics, population health and patient experience and is responsible for overall coverage decisions.
11:33 am
February 23, 2010
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, GE Healthcare is playing an important role, offering what it says is the "most comprehensive IT solution for healthcare support" in the history of the games.
11:13 am
February 19, 2010
Eclipsys, the Atlanta-based health software and services company, has beaten expectations for the fourth quarter of 2009, posting adjusted earnings of 17 cents per share when analysts, on average, had predicted that number to be 12 cents.
02:54 pm
February 18, 2010
Acumen Solutions has been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services to build a cloud-based customer relations management solution in support of the department's electronic healthcare record program, which has been expanded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
11:05 am
February 18, 2010
David E. Garets, president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics, says that while there's certainly still a long way to go, providers across the country "are making significant progress in a whole bunch of places" in the implementation and effective use of healthcare IT.
10:49 am
February 17, 2010
Purdue University has been given $12 million in funding which will be put towards its efforts to help foster the adoption and implementation of healthcare IT.
09:24 am
February 17, 2010
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse. But thanks to a clever idea from a local staffing firm, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan saved 1,000 of its IT jobs from going offshore.
11:00 am
February 15, 2010
Concord Hospital, the New Hampshire regional medical center, has chosen Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine to be the new platform to migrate and manage message exchange for their health information system (HIS).
03:51 pm
February 12, 2010
Xerox has announced its acquisition of Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services. This merger will accelerate Xerox's growth in the expanding business process and document management market.
11:01 am
February 12, 2010
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, will partner with major health insurers in New Jersey for a pilot program in which a multi-payer portal will serve as a "one-stop shop" for physicians in the state to communicate directly with an array of health plans.
03:44 pm
February 10, 2010
Stressing the benefits of early action - and illustrating just how much farther ahead in adoption Massachusetts is than many other parts of the country - two significant local users of healthcare IT offered insights from their experiences in Boston on Tuesday.
