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North Carolina is replacing its Medicaid Management Information System, one that will support and manage other state agency health services in addition to Medicaid.
The CEO of the Tufts Health Plan, who is the grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team, is urging universal healthcare.
The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is among a growing number of hospitals rolling out technology to boost the patient hand-off process.
The Indiana University Health Center has launched an online personal health record for students at its Bloomington campus. The intent is to make it easy for students and their families to share medical information with the health center.
A group of Maryland healthcare institutions, including Erickson Retirement Communities, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, MedStar Health and the University of Maryland Medical System, has submitted its plan for a statewide health information exchange.
Radiology and medical imaging company AMICAS, Inc., has entered into a merger agreement with rival Emageon Inc. The two companies announced Monday AMICAS plans to acquire Emageon in a $39 million deal.
Doctors who electronically prescribe through the Rochester Regional Health Information Organization now can view all the medicines that their patients are taking, reducing the chance of drug errors and misuse, RHIO officials announced recently.
Mary Wakefield, director of the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota, will take the reins at the Health Resources and Services Administration.
The Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, a private, not-for-profit healthcare system serving the greater Philadelphia area, is poised to roll out new technology aimed at improving patient care.
Investments in healthcare information technology are among the top five strategies a new Commonwealth Fund study recommends for providing better care and slowing the growth of health spending by $3 trillion by the end of the next decade.