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A new study by a Stanford University research team, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, has found that using EHR and clinical decision support technology may improve administrative efficiency but does "not appear to translate into better outpatient quality of care."
HealthPoint, a network of 12 not-for-profit clinics in suburban Seattle, has reaped significant cost savings by consolidating IT that had been spread throughout seven of the network's facilities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GE Healthcare and the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services are collaborating on a project to test the efficacy of actionable health alerts delivered to a physician's electronic medical record.
HP Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority have signed a seven-year, $281 million IT and information services contract aimed at preparing SoonerCare, the state’s Medicaid program, for federal health reform mandates.
Seven entities awarded grants
An electronic health card designed to maintain an individual's personal health record and provide a payment card option that can access an individual's HSA, FSA or HRA account was launched during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference last month.
Patient Centered Medical Home initiative follows patient home
Financial rewards are being used as the carrot for healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, achieve meaningful use and include quality reporting and tracking in outcomes measurement.
Indiana's health IT sector, which includes more than 72 growing technologies along with health plans, life sciences companies, academic institutions, philanthropic organizations and state government, has bolstered the state’s healthcare and economy, according to a new report
While lawmakers in Washington continue to duke it out over the federal budget, many experts are saying the $27 billion allotted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to reward providers for healthcare IT adoption should be secure, mainly because healthcare IT has bipartisan support.