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The Senate Finance Committee released a health reform package Tuesday that includes measures to advance healthcare IT.

21st Century Healthcare Consulting has developed and deployed a new Capacity Planner module to help improve community services offered by the UK's National Health Service.

The Health IT Standards Committee Tuesday endorsed a set of security and privacy standards for electronic health record systems that it said would get progressively tougher without holding back wider health information sharing.

Experts and federal officials close to the issue of healthcare IT adoption and the promotion of meaningful use under the new stimulus package say intentions are high, but the actual work that lies ahead is monumental.

Joe Fortuna, chairman-elect of the healthcare division of the American Society of Quality, spoke to the 21st Century Health Care Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the openEHR Foundation will work together to develop clinical content for the electronic health record.

In light of a growing economy, Ghana’s healthcare sector has seen a high demand for medical imaging technology.

The Ochsner Health System, one of the largest non-university based physician-training centers in the country, has gone live with a new anesthesia information and drug management system at 41 locations.

athenahealth, Inc., a provider of Web-based business services to physician practices, has launched a new program designed to incentivize the use of its EHR system through the federal stimulus plan.

The heads of the federal Health IT Standards Committee, Jonathan Perlin and John Halamka, moved the panel at its meeting this morning to the next phase of work – guidance for implementation.