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Survey: Most hospitals with EHRs and HIEs plan cloud initiatives

Hospitals and healthcare systems are increasingly eyeing the use of cloud-based systems, according to a new survey by Harris Interactive for the Optum Institute. Nearly 60 percent of responding CIOs

Gartner predicts cloud will take over by 2014

Gartner, a leading technology consulting firm, has made the bold prediction that by 2014, the center of computer users' "digital lives" will shift from the PC to the "personal cloud." That doesn't

UK health officials push home monitoring

British health officials are all but banking on mobile and wireless technologies for patient self-monitoring as part of a 20-billion-pound ($31.6 billion) cost-savings plan for the National Health

Mobile health companies need to prove value

A couple of debates keep raging in mobile healthcare, and a recent, widely publicized report from PricewaterhouseCoopers has helped to fan the flames. First off, what exactly is mobile healthcare? To

England moving away from national IT program

England's National Health Service is effectively ending the National Programme for IT, moving away from a centralized, national strategy for deploying IT to hospitals and clinics across the country

ATA's Linkous warns of m-health 'hype cycle,' tempers talk of 'revolution'

Lest anyone think mobile healthcare will singlehandedly transform healthcare, American Telemedicine Association President Jonathan Linkous delivers a little reality check. "The wide-spread media

Gartner analyst: Health CIOs must develop mobile strategies soon

Despite all sorts of forecasts indicating that usage of mobile and wireless technologies will skyrocket in the coming years, many healthcare CIOs have not implemented strategies to accommodate new

CIOs optimistic despite slow growth in HIT spending

Though the health IT industry is gearing up for the federal health IT stimulus program that begins in October for hospitals and next January for physician practices, don't expect a big increase in

Making a list and checking it twice--or more

People love lists. We know that here at FierceMobileHealthcare, where our lists of free iPhone apps and BlackBerry apps for healthcare brought huge traffic to this site. And with 2009 winding down,