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A Web portal is helping to move patients out of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s emergency department and into health centers in the city.

The number of physicians using electronic prescribing will have more than doubled in 2009, according to executives of the e-prescribing network Surescripts.

The government’s piece of the stimulus package designed to encourage the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expect- ed to create 50,000 new jobs – maybe more.

The Federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released “requests for proposals” to all 50 states to apply for grants worth $1.2 billion.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) is seeking senior executives working in healthcare to serve on its board of trustees and board of commissioners.

The government's piece of the stimulus package aimed at boosting the adoption and use of healthcare information technology is expected to create 50,000 new jobs – maybe more.

Integrated Medical Services, a not-for-profit physician services organization based in Arizona, is overhauling its electronic health record systems.

GE Healthcare officials made several announcements Wednesday in New York concerning the company's $6 billion Healthymagination initiative, which aims at investing in technologies that improve healthcare.

Metro Health Village, a Greater Grand Rapids, Mich.-base health care provider, presents a new concept in providing care to its patients through a 170-acre community with the Metro Health Hospital at the heart.

The head of a New York-based healthcare market research firm says physicians who might have spent four hours a week online in 2004 are now spending at least eight hours in front of a computer.