health information technology

Illinois-based Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is re-releasing its TouchChart Electronic Health Record system and will market the software to small medical groups with 15 or fewer participating physicians. The announcement came at TEPR last week. With competition fierce among vendors for larger practices and health networks, small medical groups have become a bit like the holy grail of health information technology. Everybody is looking for ways to bring them in. Health IT czar David …

Oracle has completed the integration of PeopleSoft and is "ready for more acquisitions," according to Chairman Jeff Henley. Could that mean the company is finally ready to make a bold move into healthcare IT? Rumors to that effect have been in circulation for months. With healthcare one of the hottest fields in information technology, a move in that direction would be a logical next step for Oracle. It would also keep a string of big deals going. In late April, IBM bought Houston-based …

This week Hillary Clinton met with Newt Gingrich, and together they declared unity and agreement on America's healthcare future -- at least as far as the role of information technology goes in it. The man who led the conservative charge against the Clinton healthcare plan in the early 1990s cozying up with the author of HillaryCare? That surprising sight led to an immediate media …