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A report by consumer watchdog Public Citizen claims that nearly half of all hospitals have not submitted a single physician's name to the National Practitioner Data Bank, which provides reviews of healthcare practitioners' professional credentials.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, one of Canada's largest trauma and medical education centers, has automated its patient flow in hopes of achieving a new level of operational efficiency.
As President Barack Obama prepared to meet with Congressional Democrats Tuesday to discuss healthcare reform, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report that highlights both the upside and the downside of technology.
With IT budgets squeezed, physician practices and hospitals are looking to IT vendors for ways to keep their technology projects on track - but those vendors are offering few creative solutions, according to a new report from KLAS.
HealthLINC, an Indiana-based health information exchange, has received federal funding to implement a new e-prescribing solution.
Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has published on its Web site the criteria and test scripts developed during 2009, along with a newly developed "Concise Guide to CCHIT Criteria."
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday released $81.7 million in non-stimulus package funding to help expand community health center services.
Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.
The Chesapeake Hospital Authority is ready to roll out a fully integrated clinical and revenue management information technology system at the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, a 310-bed hospital in Chesapeake, Va.