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By Molly Merrill | 10:55 am | September 14, 2010
Cass County Memorial Hospital in Atlantic, Iowa, is in the process of what officials are calling a "big bang" implementation in overhauling their current IT system.
By Diana Manos | 10:47 am | September 14, 2010
Donald Berwick, MD, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), urged health plans Monday to join with the government and other stakeholders in helping to overhaul the American healthcare system.
By Bernie Monegain | 08:00 am | September 14, 2010
Health information management expert Fatima Rahman has teamed up with the Fontana Lewis Library in Fontana, Calif., to offer a free 10-week course in informatics.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:49 pm | September 13, 2010
Grants will focus on enabling care coordination for patients with complex and chronic conditions.
By Mary Mosquera | 06:44 pm | September 13, 2010
Veterans Affairs is adding more complex health records that can be retrieved with the click of a button, says top tech officer.
By Molly Merrill | 11:19 am | September 13, 2010
A recent survey of hospitals and other healthcare providers designed to understand the capacity and use of telestroke care in the Northwestern United States found 88 percent of respondents believe their rural communities suffer from a lack of stroke neurologists.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:50 am | September 13, 2010
Eleven healthcare organizations in New York State will receive a total $109 million in state grants to improve the coordination of healthcare through the use of health information technology.
By Mary Mosquera | 03:47 pm | September 10, 2010
Grants will go to 46 regional health IT extension centers to support EHRs in small critical care hospitals.
By Molly Merrill | 03:23 pm | September 10, 2010
CIOs appear cautiously optimistic about their chances for achieving stimulus funding under the HITECH Act, according to a new poll from the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).
By Kathryn Foxhall | 01:00 pm | September 10, 2010
A condition of recent House legislation would require states to make their prescription drug monitoring systems interoperable.