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Patti Brennan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison described as an authority in the field of health informatics, spoke on the emerging field of home-health information technology at the seventh annual Digital Healthcare Conference 2009 last week. Her talk, “Hi-tech Health@Home: New Center of...

Dr. Barry Chaiken. co-chairman of WTN Media's seventh annual Digital Healthcare Conference 09 kicked off the event Thursday afternoon speaking on “Social Networking: A New Tool to Engage the Clinical Community.” As the use of personal and professional social networking has exploded online in the...

Considering the devastating nature of the economy, the cellphone business had a pretty good first quarter, but all signs are pointing to dark days ahead. Dark days for the carriers, not their customers. Sprint was the last of the major phone companies to release its financial...

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amount to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry. Apple and Google share two...

After years of talk about wireless technologies' potential for widespread use in medical applications, they appear to be ready for a takeoff in adoption within health care organizations. And some doctors and IT professionals think that wireless has the potential to transform health care in...

What's more important when you sign up for your Internet service: getting a lower price upfront or being assured that your bill won't jump later? That's the crux of the debate over broadband caps, a pricing system some Internet providers have been pushing lately. The idea behind...

Is your profile complete on LinkedIn? How many friends do you have on Facebook? Did you update your “What are you working on”at both sites? If not, you may be missing the “groundswell” a term coined by Forrester researchers Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. In...

Electronic health records need a nudge from the government if the technology is to become widespread, the nation's new health information technology czar said on Thursday. "It is clear that this field has not advanced (enough) ...

I've been getting story pitches with subject lines like this one: "Swine Flu Outbreak Highlights Need for Supply Chain Resilience & Vulnerability Assessments." Opportunistic? Yes. But nonetheless important. IT plays an important role in just about everything these days, so its role in a major health story...