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The patient portal launched in July 2007 at the Mayo Clinic was running smoothly until bedlam broke loose last December.

Caritas Christi Health Care is deploying Microsoft Amalga and HealthVault to transform its ability to deliver healthcare in the community, according to the health system's chief technology officer.

A group of Virginia-based healthcare executives, pharmacists and other stakeholders has launched a new Web site to push the commonwealth toward e-prescribing.

Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital in Brockton, Mass., has implemented a new order set solution in hopes of providing point-of-care access to evidence-based order sets.

TransforMED, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is partnering with medical diagnostic equipment provider Welch Allyn to help medical practices choose an electronic health record vendor.

Standards development is at the heart of healthcare reform, according to David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

CVS Caremark and researchers from Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital are launching a study to investigate patient adherence to prescription drug therapies. One of the four key components of the study will look at how electronic prescribing impacts compliance.

At about the same time the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to approve its healthcare reform bill, Medical Group Management Association Presidnet and CEO William F. Jessee, MD, took the stage in Denver to urge his audience to do their part to fix the nation's troubled healthcare system.

A physician might qualify for $44,000 in government incentives for meaningful use of an electronic health record – but "if you have a system that's a disaster, who cares?"

The Medical Group Management Association's point man in Washington, D.C., says most of the groups the MGMA represents would not be eligible for government incentives for adopting and using an electronic health record by 2011.