Category: Health Care

Charles Wang of the UCLA Health System isn’t a nurse or a physician, but he spends every day working to improve the care of patients.

It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday. You’ve got a doctor’s appointment in an hour; he wants to follow up on a cholesterol drug he prescribed.

Want more on this topic? See a slideshow here. Reducing healthcare costs and inefficiencies by providing electronic health records to individuals has long been one

As more health care providers make patient information available over the Web and on wireless devices, security and patient privacy are foremost on IT administrators?

The federal government has developed software that will allow government agencies and private health care providers to connect their IT systems to an emerging nationwide

Tired of spending $8 million to $10 million a year to hire nurses from outside employment agencies, St. John Health in Detroit decided to create

Hospitals, medical clinics and doctors in private practice have long discussed the need to improve health care with information technology—such as computerizing patient records—but few

NEW YORK (ReutersHealth) – Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipediafor information on medications are putting themselves at risk ofpotentially harmful drug interactions

LONDON (Reuters) -An aging population, spiraling medical costs and increasingly poorservice are spurring more computer firms to bet on healthcare and whatmany of them see