Introduction last fall of a reseller program and a simplified versions of its single-sign-on software mark new paths for Sentillion Inc.

Health care information technology acquisition activity that picked up speed in 2006 kept up the pace in 2007. There were no blockbuster billion-dollar buys, with the exception of the $2.35 billion Eastman Kodak Health Group acquisition by Toronto-based Onex Corp. that included far more medical imaging modality technologies than software.

This is a story of the three wise men of health care information technology, the chief medical information officer, the chief information officer and the chief medical officer. These three have been, in large measure, responsible for the successes, failures and hopes for health care information technology. Understanding these three may help illuminate our HIT past and future.

Columbus (Ind.) Regional Hospital executives wanted to get the most bang for the buck from their new nurse call system. So when they discovered that the technology, from Rauland-Borg Corp., Skokie, Ill., can use radio frequency identification technology to track clinicians to enable them to better communicate with each other, they came up with some other ideas for how RFID could help improve workflow and patient care.

Sepsis is a killer, which is not news to inpatient facilities that struggle on a daily basis to keep their patients out of its devastating way.

Siouxland Women's Health Care P.C. has logged a number of benefits from using an electronic health record, and one of the most important has been creating a bell curve.

As a third party administrator that serves two multispecialty Independent Physician Associations, ProMed Health Care Administrators handles a variety of payment contracts.