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A report from the National Research Council says efforts aimed at the nationwide deployment of HIT will not be sufficient to achieve medical leaders' vision of healthcare in the 21st Century and may even set back the cause.
Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute will use real-time reminders to conduct a clinical trial on patient adherence and clinical outcomes for people with glaucoma.
The government unveiled an updated EHR-ready version of the Surgeon General's Internet-based family health history tool on Tuesday.
Integration capability weighs heavily on hospital executives replacing legacy lab systems and revenue management technology, according to two new reports from research firm KLAS.
The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and healthcare providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010.
The Utah Health Information Network is poised to provide care providers with complete access to patient data. UHIN tapped San Jose-based Axolotl for the technology and services to power the network.
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 191 of their affiliated hospitals, has signed a three-year agreement extending radio frequency identification to all its members in the United States.
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to create jobs by employing information technology to improve healthcare.
Michigan CardioVascular Institute, a Saginaw, Mich.-based group practice of cardiologists and heart surgeons, is poised to implement an electronic health records and practice management system in preparation for a pay-for-performance environment.
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund.