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Surescripts has named Harry Totonis, as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius expressed strong support of healthcare IT in both of her confirmation hearings this week before Congress. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on her nomination as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary as early as next week.
The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER) bill, designed to coordinate a prescription monitoring program in all 50 states, has received preliminary funding to begin implementation.
With a pledge to do their share to transform healthcare and help combat chronic disease, the CEOs of General Electric and Intel announced Thursday a partnership focused on the home health monitoring market.
Biomedical informatics researchers at the Mayo Clinic and IBM have launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium, which will facilitate an open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.
John Loonsk, MD, who until recently served as director of interoperability and standards in the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), will join CGI Federal, Inc., as vice president.
The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway, a 265-bed community hospital in Rahway, N.J., has rolled out a new electronic medical system. Hospital executives say the technology is critical to the clinicians' goal of integrating patient care.
Not content with sitting still while its Emageon purchase is in the works. AMICAS has announced a new deal to market its radiology and medical imaging products Down Under.
Cardinal Health announced plans Tuesday to cut as many as 1,300 jobs as it prepares to spin off its Clinical and Medical Products divisions into the CareFusion Corporation.
West Carroll Memorial Hospital, a 33-bed hospital in northeast Louisiana that is part of a health information exchange project, is rolling out an enterprise-wide electronic medical record.