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The federal advisory HIT Standards Committee will meet Thursday in Washington from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has deployed an electric billing system to automate billing and reduce costs.

Executives at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, a three-campus integrated health system in southeastern North Carolina, say new technology has given them real-time visibility into the end-user experience of their clinicians.

Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is expanding its PatientKeeper platform to improve capacity for its health information exchange.

The Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII) is gearing up for the next level of work with its sights set on statewide implementation, after celebrating the success of its pilot at its annual meeting in July.

Calling its role in the healthcare IT realm "mission accomplished," officials at the National Health Alliance for Health Information Technology will end a seven-year run.

U.S Home Health Care, a Chicago-based provider of home healthcare services, has launched a new solution designed to help streamline referral orders and other workflows.

Boston Medical Center is projected to generate an additional $7 million each year by automating – and thereby improving – its referral process.

A new IBM study reveals that one in four Americans have not scheduled a "wellness" visit within the last year - due, in part, to paperwork.

The Health IT Policy Committee, a federal advisory panel, adopted additional recommendations from its Meaningful Use Workgroup on Friday that had physicians, activists, vendors and others warning that the government was moving too fast.