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Most Seinfeld fans certainly remember "The Package" episode, involving a subplot in which Elaine Benes is unable to find a doctor willing to treat her troublesome rash...

A bold statement for sure, and one that begs the question: How do I know the recession is over? Well, I looked into my crystal ball...er, paper bag, and it is definitely over. What, you question the validity of this statement? Come on now, I'm an honest guy...

A funny thing happened on the way to the reporter's pencil and notebook...

Due to demand from contest entrants, the application deadline for ADVANCE' s IT Project of the Year Award has been extended from May 15 to May 20. Please click here for full details on how to enter. The winning facility will be featured on the cover of our August 2009 print edition...

A recent survey by Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based ProTech highlights some interesting insight onto what IT professionals are doing in these tough economic times...

And the winner is...NIR Diagnostics The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia awarded the student team from NIR Diagnostics, whose patented InfraVue device detects wound healing more accurately than current approaches, the $20,000 Michelson Grand Prize in this...

Times are tough. And, while I'm not standing in a line for food, yet, I'm horribly saddened by the way the U.S. economy has headed south...

Okay, let me say this as quietly as possible...IT'S OKAY ONCE AGAIN TO MAJOR IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING! Quiet enough...

Well I had tried to post a blog entry on Tuesday, but didn't have a chance. A couple of things to note was an interesting presentation on Wednesday morning by Alan Greespan. Greenspan noted the huge increases in medical expenses, 20 percent faster than the Gross Domestic Product...

This is Bob Mitchell, managing editor of ADVANCE for Health Information Executives reporting from the HIMSS conference in Chicago. It's cold, cloudy and it snowed a few inches Sunday evening...

After weeks of downright horrible news on the economy, it's nice to see good news -- even if just a glimmer. A survey published this week by TNS Global, a global market information research firm, offers health care IT suppliers hope in these horrible economic times...

With your head in the cloud as you hear Kate Bush's ethereal voice singing Cloudbusting, her shrill voice is trailing off..."The sun's coming out..." We were sitting in an editorial planning meeting awhile back and the topic of cloud computing came up...

Cynical comments about CIOs on a recent blog post caught my attention. Not only are CIOs the individuals who get the dirty jobs of having to reduce staff, cut dollars and hold everything together, now they have to be a punching bag, too...

The ADVANCE for Health Information Executives home page has been updated with new content. Top Story: AllOne Health PHR A look at mobile PHR technology...

Several of your CIO colleagues were honored, promoted or took new positions recently. My congratulations go out to Pat Skarulis who was named CHIME-HIMSS CIO of the Year recently...

The next time you're stoking the fire in the furnace of your data center you might want to think about how efficient the data center's operations really are. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S...

A few new words that we will either all come to love or hate are recession, depression and where we're at right now -- contraction...

I loved the 2002 movie Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of scammer and bank fraud criminal Frank Abignale, Jr., portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio...

McKesson Corp. (San Francisco) employee Beth McHugh talks about her experience as a passenger of USAirways Flight 1549 when it crash-landed into the Hudson River on Jan. 15. In this ADVANCE exclusive podcast, Editor Matthew T...