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The recent success of telehealth programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show a boon for the technology, especially in treating patients with chronic care conditions.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Resource Center for Health Information Technology has released a report that shows how barcode medication administration can improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare.
Eric K. Shinseki, a retired Army general, was sworn in Thursday as the seventh Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Partners HealthCare will roll out new acute care and preoperative clinical technology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Commentary from Tom Adams, president and managing director for HP Financial Services, on managing IT budgets in tough economic times.
Investing now in information technology and other tools needed to modernize the nation's healthcare system will pay dividends in lower costs and greater productivity in the future, said Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.
Hospitals looking to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new requirement to report National Drug Code numbers for drugs administered in outpatient settings will be getting a big boost from IntelliDOT.
Clara Maass Medical Center, a 465-bed community hospital in Belleville, N.J., that's affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, is boosting health information exchange for its physicians.
The Medical Records Institute has announced finalists for the 2009 TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) Awards, which will be given out during the 25th annual conference Feb. 1-5 in Palm Springs, Calif.
Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ind. will develop and roll out enterprise-wide interoperable portals for physicians, patients, employees and consumers over the next two years.