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Minnesotans will soon have access to a virtual clinic, thanks to a partnership between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and American Well.
An obstetrics application for use on the iPhone has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, says the Texas-based company that created it.
The Quantum Group, Inc., a Wellington, Fla.-based provider of business solutions for the healthcare industry, will subsidize an EHR for its 550 Renaissance-affiliated primary care physicians in Florida.
David Blumenthal, MD, the newly appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, sees "major hurdles" for the HITECH Act, according to a New England Journal of Medicine article.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has released two reports that show how nearly 40 percent of its physicians use health information technology on a regular basis.
Paul Tang, MD, chief medical information officer of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, a member of the editorial board of Healthcare IT News, and Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are among 13 members recently named to a new federal advisory committee on healthcare information technology.
The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint electronic medical record for streamlined movement of health records between the agencies, President Obama announced on Thursday.
The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM will build an information and technology-based primary-care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision for a connected healthcare system.
A massive investment in healthcare IT will be meaningless in a global economy if the technology doesn’t rein in runaway costs because healthcare spending is unsustainable in the current economic climate, according to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Twelve nonprofit healthcare organizations across Colorado will receive $2 million in grants to help them adopt health information technology.