The 2008 election will undoubtedly be a defining year for decision-making around the U.S. healthcare system.

Cook Children’s Healthcare System provides quality healthcare services through an integrated system of medical centers, hospitals, clinics, and more than 200 pediatricians and specialists.

In a hospital’s quest to have the systems it wants for clinical and administrative applications, there are often trade-offs.

Unified or enhanced communications is the buzz du jour in our industry, but there are a lot of different ideas out there for what it actually is and what it is good for.

Say the words “USA Mobility,” and hospital telecommunications managers across the country will nod their heads knowingly. Formed from the merger of Arch Wireless and Metrocall in 2004, USA Mobility is one of the last paging giants.

In the future, more people are likely to begin accessing their medical information using banking platforms. The movement toward higher deductibles, greater patient responsibility for payments and price transparency is leading to specialization of banking platforms in order to manage investments in account-based health plans, such as health savings and reimbursement accounts (HSAs and HRAs). This new health-wealth paradigm is steering market leaders to integrate health data oriented tools with financial services.