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Providers can register for Medicare EHR incentive program, or begin to sign up for Medicaid incentive program in 11 states, on Jan. 3.
The Veterans Affairs Department is wrestling with how to let physicians securely use popular external sites that enable them to store patient data online, such as Google and Yahoo, while ensuring that veterans' health information is adequately protected.
Veterans' information stored outside of VA's network on commercial online sites is a privacy breach.
Good Samaritan Medical Center and West Boca Medical Center are the first two hospitals in South Florida to use radio frequency (RF) detection technology in their operating rooms to prevent and detect foreign items inadvertently left inside a patient during surgery.
Harris Corporation, an IT company based in Melbourne, Fla., has won a four-year, $19 million contract to develop a statewide health information exchange for Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).
Hospitals' use of electronic health records has had just a limited effect on improving the quality of medical care nationwide, according to a study by the nonprofit RAND Corporation.
Learning health system will build on minimum standards, data decentralization, flexibility and innovation, IOM says.
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has announced a new membership program for patient safety professionals that will provide an opportunity for sharing of best practices and the unification of the growing patient safety community.
Dell announced Wednesday that it will acquire cloud-based medical archiving firm InSite One, of Wallingford, Conn., as it seeks to better enable healthcare organizations to retain healthcare data and share images.
A program that uses smartphones to transmit ECGs from the ambulance to the cath lab at the University Hospital in Newark, N.J., is showing improvement in patient outcomes.