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The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.

Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare IT standards development organization, has passed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved standard that specifies basic functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record system.

Blaming a stagnant economy that's forcing hospitals to curtail expenditures, Cardinal Health on Thursday lowered its fiscal-year guidance for 2009.

Healthcare IT News, the news source for healthcare information technology, has launched a brand new Web site for 2009 and beyond.

As we sat down to plan our new Web site, we knew the most valuable improvement we could make would be to increase our readers' involvement and interaction with us and each other.

Pop the hood on our new Web site and you'll find one very powerful engine. It's called Drupal, a free, open-source platform that powers all of our content entry.

All Americans will have electronic medical records in five years if Congress passes President-Elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, outlined in a Jan. 8 speech.

President-elect Barack Obama's healthcare reform plan has gained the endorsement of healthcare CIOs around the country.

Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform.

Excela Health, a non-profit healthcare network serving western Pennsylvania, will implement an electronic health record system for the more than 115 physicians in Excela Health Physician Practices (EHPP).