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While the Healthcare IT Policy Committee, a federal advisory panel, is working on projects that will outline patient protections, patient privacy activists warn that allowing patients to opt out of participation in electronic health information exchanges will be critical to building public trust.
California software company Oracle plans to acquire Phase Forward, a Waltham, Mass.-based maker of software applications for life sciences companies and healthcare providers.
Oregon Health & Science University, a recognized national leader in health information technology education, will expand its course offerings with the $5.8 million in government funds it was awarded recently.
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) and Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) introduced legislation Thursday to extend the incentives for the meaningful use of electronic health records to behavioral health and substance abuse providers.
MacPractice, the major Apple developer of practice management and clinical software on Macs and iPhones for medical and dental offices, has launched new iPad integration solutions that are expect to allow doctors and dentists to use all MacPractice software on an iPad.
Standards organization Health Level Seven International is urging the United States to move full speed ahead with its programs for the voluntary certification of health information technology - with what the group calls "reasonable and important modifications."
A new hospital recently opened in Botswana is being touted as a paperless hospital "without borders."
Ottawa's Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) has agreed to a new contract with Accentus, a provider of medical dictation and transcription products.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has named Karen Bell, MD, a former executive in the Office of the National Coordinator and an expert in improving health quality, as its chair, effective April 26.
Maine's HealthInfoNet, the state's designated health information exchange, was awarded $4.7 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, just as Gov. John E. Baldacci issued an executive order creating two new state entities responsible for the expansion and coordination of healthcare IT.