The health care industry continues to lag behind others in its adoption of technology. Indeed, it devotes only 2 percent of its gross revenues to technology, compared to the 10 percent regularly allocated to technology products and services by financial services firms, according to a study sponsored by Kaiser Permanent Institute for Health Policy.

So, looking back upon 2007, the big news in physicians' practices is the increasing acceptance and adoption of technologies that have been around for a while, but which had previously failed to gain traction. Read more...