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By Mary Mosquera | 05:31 pm | November 12, 2010
DSS will deploy its VistA mental health module to all 153 hospitals after testing it at 50 medical centers.
By Mike Miliard | 12:01 pm | November 12, 2010
A new report from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) offers recommendations for reducing or eliminating "tensions" between healthcare IT vendors and their customers – specifically with regard to indemnity and error management.

By Eric Wicklund | 11:51 am | November 12, 2010
VHA, Inc., is putting its nationwide comparative database to work to help hospitals cut millions of dollars in wasted expenses from their high-cost cardiology, orthopedics and spine service line procedures through a new "Door-to-Discharge" program.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:26 am | November 12, 2010
With the goal of bringing data, documents and guidelines on meeting and exceeding meaningful use into one location, HIMSS has made available a new CPOE Wiki.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:31 am | November 12, 2010
Healthcare providers tend to lean toward vendors they know when looking for help with their RAC audits, according to a new report from research firm KLAS. Vendors with strong revenue cycle, health information management or case management install bases are leveraging their previous business relationships with customers to win RAC solution contracts.
By Chip Means | 10:03 am | November 12, 2010
West Hertfordshire NHS Trust hopes its latest IT upgrade will allow staff to view aggregate patient data in a single portal.
By Mike Miliard | 09:09 am | November 12, 2010
Microsoft has announced a new suite of apps in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. There are more than 50 applications listed in the health and fitness section of the marketplace.
By Molly Merrill | 05:42 pm | November 11, 2010
Maine's culture is to "get things done" - and when it comes to improving the quality of care through IT, the state has positioned itself well, said its director of the Office of the State Coordinator for HIT, James Leonard at a regional extension center (REC) educational forum this week.
By Mary Mosquera | 02:20 pm | November 11, 2010
The Army secure messaging program enables case managers to communicate dynamically via cell phone with wounded soldiers about their mood and pain management.
By Molly Merrill | 12:20 pm | November 11, 2010
There is about a 50 percent failure rate for electronic medical record implementations, and most of those failures stem from poor planning and preparation, said a family physician who spoke at a regional extension center (REC) forum held for providers in Maine.