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Doylestown Hospital near Philadelphia has launched the next phase of its health IT connectivity initiative to share information with community physicians.

By 2013, the shipments of home-use telehealth devices, such as digital blood-glucose meters and pulse oximeters, will top 2 million, according to a new report from InMedica, the medical research division of IMS Research.

Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, and the definition of “meaningful use” of an EMR, the healthcare CIO is looking at a much larger range of responsibilities.


Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School will take the lead on development of a new healthcare information technology platform – inspired by the iPhone.


An online provider of health insurance information is boosting its Medicare portfolio with a new acquisition.

California picks IT outsourcing firm to tackle most complex state Medicaid Management IS project ever attempted.

Pay-for-performance programs could increase medical disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

An explosion of data will only continue to pose challenges for CIOs and their servers. This week, EMC Corp. and IDC announced the results of an annual study that measures the growth of digital information not by terabytes or petabytes, but "zettabytes" – a unit of storage equal to one trillion gigabytes.

A commission of national healthcare experts convened by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) has unveiled a roadmap for better healthcare that calls for a "health information superhighway."