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The Health Care Communication and Social Media community from Twitter has launched a Web site to aggregate information feeds from social, government and traditional media concerning the swine flu.

A noninvasive technology currently in development to measure blood and tissue chemistry in astronauts is expected to have benefits for monitoring patients on Earth.

Silver Hill Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Conn., is installing an open source electronic health record system first developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 20 years ago.

An analyst says Cerner may have posted 'lackluster' quarterly earnings Tuesday, but the healthcare IT company is well positioned to take advantage of available stimulus money.

Randy Spratt, executive vice president and chief information officer at McKesson, has been promoted to the newly created position of chief technology officer.

Wednesday marks President Barack Obama's 100th day in office - a stretch that has seen heavy focus on healthcare reform and health IT.

Kathleen Sebelius begins her first day today as Department of Health and Human Services secretary, having garnered Senate confirmation Tuesday in a 65-31 vote.

According to first quarter federal reports, Google participated in lobbying efforts aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the economic stimulus legislation.

Cardinal Health said last month it would cut as many as 1,300 jobs as it prepares to spin off its Clinical and Medical Products divisions into the CareFusion Corporation.

It’s unclear whether the timeline for implementing electronic health records to receive federal incentive payments will create demand for EHR products and services between now and 2012.