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Health Care: Huge Growth in Electronic Health Record Management (and associated pain)

By Dick Weisinger

The eHealth Records market is growing quickly.  The market for electronic medical record systems by 2015 is expected to exceed $5.4 billion in North America, and to reach $1.4 billion in Europe.  That’s a forecast made by Global Industry Analysts,

HealthCare: Flow from the Stimulus Spigot

By Dick Weisinger

The federal stimulus spending program has allocated $20 billion towards IT health spending.  While those dollars aren’t supposed to actually start being spent until 2011, companies in Healthcare have seen an increase in their IT spending in 2009 compared to

Open Source: OS Stimulus for eHealth Records — Still a Ways to Go

By Dick Weisinger

Estimates are that electronic Health Record management is currently a $575 million business and that it will grow to a size of $1.6 billion by 2013. Electronic health records are expected to greatly improve accuracy of records and also to

eHealth Records: Privacy is the Stumbling Block

By Dick Weisinger

With $19 billion earmarked in stimulus funds to bootstrap this country’s electronic health record system, one would hope for a quantum leap forward in a very short period of time. Obama has put forward the challenge to digitize every American’s

EHealth: IBM and Mayo Clinic Team Up on Health Records

By Dick Weisinger

Days after IBM got approval for UIMA as an OASIS standard, IBM and the Mayo clinic have announced that they’ve set up a web site dedicated to UIMA-based annotators that target Health records.  The wiki pages and source repository is