Stacy Lawrence

Stacy Lawrence is co-editor of CIOInsight.com's Health Care Center. Lawrence has covered IT and the life sciences for various publications, including Business 2.0, Red Herring, The Industry Standard and Nature Biotechnology. Before becoming a journalist, Lawrence attended New York University and continued on in the sociology doctoral program at UC Berkeley.

Kaiser EHR System Is Stalled, Employee Says

Shortly after a Kaiser Permanente project supervisor circulated an internal e-mail to more than 180,000 employees denouncing the companys electronic health record system and the alleged financial waste associated...

McKesson to Acquire Per-Se for $1.8B

McKesson has announced that it will acquire Per-Se Technologies for $1.8 billion.McKesson is among the largest health care services companies, and provides supply management and IT for health care...

Study: Computer Games Help Alzheimers Patients

When merged with regular medication and in-person cognitive stimulation, structured computer-based games can help Alzheimers patients improve their memory, according to a new study. Patients who performed the best were...

Preventative Health Care Tool Ready for Download

In an effort to encourage top notch preventative care, a new tool to be downloaded to a PDA or desktop or used online by health care providers was launched...

More EHR Products Get Certified

Eleven electronic health record products were recently given a seal of approval by the industry group the Certification Committee for Healthcare Information Technology. The certification is the first for ambulatory...

Latest Posts

100+ Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companies 2023

Artificial intelligence companies are riding a hyper-accelerated growth curve. The stunning debut of ChatGPT in November 2022 was the crack of a starting gun...

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I spoke with Lynn Comp, CVP of Server Product and Technology Marketing at AMD, about the present and future of cloud computing, from energy...

Dell Technologies World 2023: Simplifying IT Infrastructures

A central trend in enterprise IT during the past decade has been the decentralization of computation, data storage and networking. Cloud computing platforms play...

GPT4 vs. Claude

GPT4 and Claude are both leading AI applications that use generative AI: GPT4 is the latest version of ChatGPT, the popular AI-based chatbot that...

Komprise’s Krishna Subramanian on Generative AI and Data Management

I spoke with Krishna Subramanian, COO at Komprise, about the data management problems companies face when they use generative AI. Data management with AI...