Stock prices in the health IT sector declined 10 percent overall in the first half of 2014, according to a report from Healthcare Growth Partners.
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More and more healthcare organizations are using virtual desktop infrastructure, according to a report from IT security firm Imprivata.
A growing demand for unaltered and unformatted data, especially for research and analytics efforts, has introduced "the lake" into the health IT lexicon, according to a report from the Brookings Institution.
Cloud-based health IT vendor athenahealth is expanding its strategic partnership with Henry Schein to incorporate the latter's Dentrix Enterprise electronic dental record system into the athenaNet electronic health record platform at community health centers, including federally qualified health centers.
Overall, health IT consultants appear to be slightly more satisfied with their job than full-time health IT employees, according to a survey from Healthcare IT Leaders, a health IT consulting and staffing firm.
The global healthcare analytics market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of more than 25 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Research and Markets.
University Medical Center of El Paso (Texas) has laid off 56 employees because El Paso Children's Hospital has been unable to pay UMC the $70 million it owes, according to an El Paso Inc. report.
Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said it is unlikely that Ebola will spread to the United States, the agency still issued Level 2 alerts for citizens traveling to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
A Canadian hospital was able to reduce the rate of surgical site infections by 77 percent for open heart surgeries after implementing a surgical safety best practices bundle, according to a case study.
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