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The North Hawaii Community Hospital, the Hawaii IPA, independent physicians, and some of the region's leading payers and trading partners are building a connected health care community.
Doylestown Hospital near Philadelphia has launched the next phase of its health IT connectivity initiative to share information with community physicians.
Although a new study finds "uneven" effort being applied to implementing clinical decision support in CPOE, some hospitals are setting the bar for its use.
Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, and the definition of “meaningful use” of an EMR, the healthcare CIO is looking at a much larger range of responsibilities.
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will take the lead on development of a new healthcare information technology platform – inspired by the iPhone.
The government will announce "soon - it should be very, very soon" which 15 communities of the 130 that applied will be awarded Beacon Community grants, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal, MD, said Thursday.
Chicago-based HIMSS – the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – will take an anchor spot in a new Medical Trade Center in Nashville that is being billed as "a global headquarters for healthcare events."
Vish Sankaran, who has headed up the Federal Health Architecture program to much acclaim from industry insiders, will step down to seek other opportunities. Sankaran sent an e-mail this morning to friends and colleagues.
Increasing the use of quality measurement as part of electronic health records systems is critical to achieving meaningful use of health information technology, the American College of Physicians reported in a paper released Thursday at the 129,000-member organization's annual meeting in Toronto.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children has recently announced the deployment of a new communications and results reporting solution aimed at improving patient test ordering.