Health care may be the fastest growing industry, but it has been slow to adopt the use of technology. While orders at fast food chains are now entirely automated, most physician offices and hospitals still maintain their records on paper.

RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG will link up all of its facilities, currently numbering 46, using a web-based electronic health record.

In collaboration with India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett announced a sweeping new effort to transform healthcare in rural India. The health projects, starting in Tamil Nadu, a state with a population of 62 million, reflect an extension of the Intel World Ahead Program, a global initiative to provide people in developing countries with the benefits of better, faster access to information and communications technology (ICT).

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company a leading vendor of clinical, financial and administrative information technology solutions, today showcased the company’s innovative health information technology (HIT) solutions to members of the National Governors Association’s (NGA) State Alliance for e-Health.