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The Department of Defense Military Health System has signed an $8.1 million, 12-month add-on contract with EDS to make technical enhancements to several health information management systems.

The market for medical automation technology is forecast to grow from $13.1 billion this year to $23.2 billion in 2014, according to BCC Research.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is expected to release more details on its "modular" certification on Sept. 24, and it is also planning training sessions in Chicago on Sept. 29 and Oct. 1, to orient vendors and developers to new programs.

Premier Purchasing Partners, the group purchasing unit of the Premier healthcare alliance has selected AeroScout's healthcare technology as the exclusive Wi-Fi-based RFID solutions for Premier's member hospitals.

Health2 Resources has provided free access to it’s new educational Web portal. The portal provides information and up-to-date news articles on the patient-centered medical home.

GE has announced an initiative for developing wireless medical monitoring systems, or body-sensor networks (BSN). The new systems would replace the tangle of bedside cables used to capture a patient's vital signs.

The Delaware Health Information Network, live since March 2007 and a participant in the Nationwide Health Information Network trial implementations, is now preparing for its next transition.

Three Indiana and Ohio organizations are now sending clinical test results, reports and other medical information through their health information exchanges, a first in the country.

Garden City Hospital has upgraded its emergency department system with the addition of an electronic health record.

The Center for Technology and Aging has released guidelines for a $500,000 grants program aimed at using technology to help reduce patients' failure to adhere to prescribed medication regimens.