Posted 2.8.2010 7:41:04 PM by Vince Ciotti with 0 comment(s)
Computer Products & Services (CPSI) just announced 2009 financial results, and they slipped a tad: for the 4th quarter, net income was down 26% to $3.6M, while revenue increased 5% to $33.8M. For the year, net income was only down 1.6% from 2008, while annual revenue was up 7% to $127M. Result? Stock dropped 17% on January 29.
Posted 2.4.2010 11:26:21 AM by David Raths with 0 comment(s)
In providing an update on his office’s activity to a National Government Health IT Summit in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 4, David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, predicted that once the momentum of electronic health record adoption picks up, physicians themselves would become leaders in promoting innovation and improvement. “There will be no holding...
Posted 2.3.2010 8:43:12 AM by Vince Ciotti with 0 comment(s)
Nashville-based HMS, a leading player in the small-hospital total HIS space, has acquired MedHost, a major player in ED systems.
We recently assessed a hospital using MedHost in its ED, and it was a stunning implementation. When you sign on to the system, you get a floor map of your ED, with color buttons representing patients, green for recent admissions,...
In the 1993film Groundhog Day, Bill Murrayplays Phil Connors, a character who finds himself in the unenviable position of awaking day after day to the same (Groundhog’s) day.The...
Back in the days when I was on the faculty of medicine, there was a rather pejorative phrase used to describe the practice of authors who would dole out results of a study piecemeal, in “slices” spread out over the largest practicable number of publications, thereby maximizing the number of CV entries per...
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