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The technology offers a natural way to ensure the full measure of clinical info gets into the medical record, its backers say.
Despite a tech-impoverished background Surgeon General has history of supporting health IT.
Providers, vendors and policymakers weigh best means of ensuring health IT protects patient safety.
From activating state insurance exchanges to setting up accountable care organizations, the success of health reform will depend on smart IT engineering.
Some of the leading lights of healthcare IT gathered for a Monday afternoon symposium titled "Healthcare In Transition: How Information Technology is Remaking Medicine."
Members of the American Hospital Association (AHA) prepare to swarm Capitol Hill this week with a list of legislative measures they want changed. According to Rick Pollack, AHA executive vice president, the meaningful use rule will be at the top of the list.
Washington and New Mexico Medicaid programs will receive thousands of dollars in federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
As called for under the HITECH Act, the Health & Human Services Department plans to release in May a proposed rule that strengthens existing privacy, security and enforcement requirements for organizations that handle patients’ health information.
The Scotland National Health System (NHS) will be launching a new health IT suite to move along the nation's healthcare integration goals.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a new initiative to address safety problems associated with external infusion pumps – devices that deliver fluids such as nutrients and medications into a patient's body in a controlled manner.