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More than 40 healthcare organizations will benefit from more than $1 million in Cardinal Health Foundation awards aimed at boosting care and efficiency.
Asserting itself in a market that's become more and more crucial for healthcare, IBM is making a play in the area of data capture with its announcement Tuesday that it will acquire Datacap Inc., a privately-held company based in Tarrytown, NY.
Second-round meaningful use should require higher marks for using health IT for medication reconciliation, say docs.
Highmark's mobile app lets members easily find nearby provider locations, while also giving them on-the-go access to health and wellness information.
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is preparing to launch a formal rulemaking to establish rules of the road for the nationwide health information network, a process policymakers hope will clear the way for large and small organizations to use the NHIN.
Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has announced two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption.
They're tiny: often just the size of a grain of rice or even a mote of dust. And they're cheap: usually just ten bucks or so. But radio frequency identification (RFID) chips pack a powerful punch. And they're being used in more – and more interesting – ways than ever.
There's a sense of relief across the industry that the just-unveiled meaningful use criteria are less stringent than many had feared, striking the right note between rules-based accountability and the freedom needed to foster wider implementation.
Information technology and services company Ingenix has signed a merger agreement to acquire Wakefield, Mass.-based Picis, which provides health information solutions for the high-acuity areas of hospitals.
In July, the Leapfrog Group released a report on computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems that contained some discouraging findings.