Walking into a hospital often means subjecting oneself to auditory overload. Beeps from the left and chirps from the right don’t only prevent patients from getting the rest they need, these annoying alarms deliver providers the clinical equivalent of junk mail when they should only send top priority information.

Confronting real or exaggerated budget competition from IT, designated ‘tech assessors’ take the guesswork and emotion out of medical equipment buying decisions.

The road to successful accountable care might be relatively short when it comes to building the necessary infrastructure. It’s the culture change that takes time.

Whenever I hear the term “end user,” I can’t help but picture syringes on a sidewalk. I remember a past job where corporate IT would send out server updates and such to the satellite offices addressing recipients even more starkly: “Dear Users …”

Nuance Communications signed a definitive agreement to acquire Quantim, the health information management business of QuadraMed, a provider of health IT solutions.

The latest advanced visualization (AV) research continues to prove that personalized medicine is more effective medicine. Studies show that AV tools can play an important role in more effective useand associated cost savingsof invasive disease detection tests and treatments for women.

Barco has unveiled Conference CloneView for projecting high-quality medical images onto a large-screen display.

Merge Healthcare has retained Allen & Company, an investment bank, to assist in exploring and evaluating a range of strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, a sale of the company or a business combination.