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Southwest General Hospital Center, a 356-bed medical facility based in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, has deployed a new electronic medical record for its physicians.
Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for a year after its job application Web site was breached, the Associated Press has reported.
A new law signed by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will coax physicians into making the switch from paper to electronic medical records by requiring private insurance companies to provide financial incentives.
The University of North Carolina Health Care is partnering with IBM to create a data warehouse designed to help speed the development of new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer.
A compilation of recent hires, promotions and moves in the healthcare information technology industry.
Conferences, exhibitors and other events for the months of June and July.
Emergency departments across the country are feeling the brunt of the economic downturn, with a spike in the number of acute cases and uninsured patien
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Few procedures in the hospital cause more consternation for clinicians than passwords. In some facilities, employees need a literal scorecard to keep track of which complex alphanumeric log-on sequence they need for which application. It can number in the dozens for some.
A GE project dubbed “healthymagination” will put $3 billion over six years into research and development to launch at least 100 innovations aimed at providing better healthcare while cutting costs.