Molly Merrill

A Web portal is helping to move patients out of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center’s emergency department and into health centers in the city.

The number of physicians using electronic prescribing will have more than doubled in 2009, according to executives of the e-prescribing network Surescripts.

Integrated Medical Services, a not-for-profit physician services organization based in Arizona, is overhauling its electronic health record systems.

GE Healthcare officials made several announcements Wednesday in New York concerning the company's $6 billion Healthymagination initiative, which aims at investing in technologies that improve healthcare.

A new tool will aid doctors in identifying patients eligible for the H1N1 vaccine using criteria published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new survey shows that IT practitioners believe their organizations are lacking when it comes to protecting patient information.

A regional not-for-profit health insurer serving New York, Vermont and New Hampshire will reimburse physicians for online consults.

TransforMED, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is partnering with medical diagnostic equipment provider Welch Allyn to help medical practices choose an electronic health record vendor.

CVS Caremark and researchers from Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital are launching a study to investigate patient adherence to prescription drug therapies. One of the four key components of the study will look at how electronic prescribing impacts compliance.

Thanks to federal grant money, the Hamilton Community Health Network, a 25-physician, six-campus practice serving Flint, Mich. - an area that has been particularly hit hard by the economic crisis - will be able to implement an electronic medical record.