Author :
Jepsen, Thomas ; Mithas, Sunil ; Hsu, Chien-Yeh ; Kraft, George
Author_Institution :
IT Consultant
Abstract :
Adopting information technology for healthcare continues to present new opportunities and challenges as we move into an era of universally accessible electronic medical records and telemedicine. Efforts at healthcare reform have created new incentives for adopting healthcare IT, and work continues to improve access to healthcare and provide new and enhanced services to more areas.
Keywords :
Application software; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Hospitals; Image storage; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Multicore processing; Parallel processing; Technology transfer; Healthcare; electronic medical records; health IT; information technology;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2010.57
