Mike Miliard
Mike Miliard is Executive Editor of Healthcare IT News. He focuses on topics such as interoperability, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, analytics, population health and patient experience and is responsible for overall coverage decisions.
11:58 am
February 24, 2010
The reports out of Haiti are staggering. Some doctors estimate that perhaps 200,000 survivors of the massive January earthquake face the loss of one or more limb. Many observers have called the island "a nation of amputees."
11:13 am
February 24, 2010
The information security service SecureWorks, which protects 82 healthcare companies in the United States, reported last month that attempted hacker attacks aimed at its clients doubled in the fourth quarter of 2009.
10:54 am
February 24, 2010
GE Healthcare, Intel, and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to experiment with a new prototype for healthcare delivery, bringing care into the home for patients at risk for re-hospitalization.
04:31 pm
February 23, 2010
Data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them, a recent survey found.
11:33 am
February 23, 2010
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, GE Healthcare is playing an important role, offering what it says is the "most comprehensive IT solution for healthcare support" in the history of the games.
11:13 am
February 19, 2010
Eclipsys, the Atlanta-based health software and services company, has beaten expectations for the fourth quarter of 2009, posting adjusted earnings of 17 cents per share when analysts, on average, had predicted that number to be 12 cents.
02:54 pm
February 18, 2010
Acumen Solutions has been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services to build a cloud-based customer relations management solution in support of the department's electronic healthcare record program, which has been expanded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
11:05 am
February 18, 2010
David E. Garets, president and CEO of HIMSS Analytics, says that while there's certainly still a long way to go, providers across the country "are making significant progress in a whole bunch of places" in the implementation and effective use of healthcare IT.
10:49 am
February 17, 2010
Purdue University has been given $12 million in funding which will be put towards its efforts to help foster the adoption and implementation of healthcare IT.
09:24 am
February 17, 2010
Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse. But thanks to a clever idea from a local staffing firm, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan saved 1,000 of its IT jobs from going offshore.
