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The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will offer a new degree program in informatics this September.
At the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s HIT Policy Committee Certification and Adoption Workgroup meeting July 14, there was the usual bantering and expectations about meaningful use. But above the cacophony, I heard something not usually spoken. And it came from someone who ought to know.
President Barack Obama called for fixing the broken healthcare system by building upon investments made in electronic medical records in a town hall meeting held last month.
Cisco and UnitedHealth Group officials plan to build a nationwide telehealth network to deliver healthcare services to rural and underserved areas.
Reductions in cost and improvements in care are achievable if national efforts to boost health information technology adoption are coordinated with national health reform plans, said a trio of non-profit organizations.
Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, a Los Angeles-based care provider, has deployed a new electronic health record.
Summa Health System, a healthcare network that serves a five county region in northeast Ohio, has gone live with Sentillion's single sign-on technology for more than 4,000 caregivers.
The “deinstallation” of electronic medical records, or reverting back to paper, is difficult to measure, but one report suggests that Arizona is experiencing an increase in EMR failures that could be followed nationally.
The economy is forcing hospitals to consider delaying or scaling back their IT projects, according to a survey of America’s “most wired” hospitals and health systems.
American are taking a shine to self-service healthcare.