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GE Healthcare announced that its Centricity Practice Solution version 9.5 has been inspected by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and is a premarket conditionally CCHIT Certified 2011 Ambulatory EHR, with additional certification for child health and cardiovascular medicine with advanced reporting.
A new study from KLAS shows that, while there's no enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor that overwhelmingly satisfies clients, the limited options in that market mean that migrating to a new one may not be worth the cost.
Stockholders of healthcare IT developers Allscripts and Eclipsys approved the merger of the two companies at a special meeting held Aug. 13.
Latest report to Congress on security breaches shows steady trickle of smart phone losses; but overall incidents dipped since June.
The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge, an initiative seeking to stimulate innovative application development and data use for healthcare, announced four new challenges that could net winners more than $15,000.
The National Institutes of Health has launched a nationwide IT-supported research initiative using human studies to define changes in the human immune system in response to infection or to vaccination.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General is recommending that the federal government crack down on physicians who have incorrectly coded their Medicare claims for the wrong place of service.
Orlando Health will implement a Web-based decision support checklist tool to assist physicians with diagnosis decisions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is readying a set of electronic accounting and processing tools that will help authenticate, track and manage payments to healthcare providers participating in the federal meaningful use financial incentive program.
First meeting of the new national health information network governance workgroup is scheduled for Sept. 3.