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Government grants like the $220 million awarded Tuesday to 15 Beacon Communities – models for the use of healthcare information technology – will create "tens of thousands" of new jobs in an up-and-coming sector, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Several IHE profiles were endorsed for national programs throughout Europe at the 10th annual European Connectathon, which was held from April 12-16 in Bordeaux.

Beacon grantees constitute roadmap for productive and measurable uses of health IT at the community level, HHS officials say.

The government has released the names of the 15 communities across the country from Maine to Hawaii that will serve as models for the broad use of healthcare information technology under a $220 million program aimed at improving care and efficiency – and creating new jobs.

A new study by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows that electronic health records in some cases can impose higher costs to hospitals and lower quality of care.

Maryland's CRISP picks Axolotl platform to let physicians exchange clinical data through an Internet connection.

Health and Human Services Department-sponsored website would work in tandem with planned state health insurance exchanges.

Researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine are saying a new study shows – for the first time – that using a computerized physician order entry system can significantly decrease hospital-wide mortality rates.

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights issued a request for information Monday on the HIPAA privacy rule that governs the accounting of disclosures under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Scripps Health CEO Chris Van Gorder Gorder talks about the IT tools that were useful to his medical team and the information he wished they had access to during three trips to the devastated Haitian capital.