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IBM has signed a business process services agreement with athenahealth, the provider of Web-based business services for physician practices.
The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children has recently announced the deployment of a new communications and results reporting solution aimed at improving patient test ordering.
Brandeis University has announced that it will offer a new online master's degree in health and medical informatics – part of its effort to help create the 50,000 new IT jobs necessary to usher the healthcare system "fully into the digital age."
Health IT Policy Committee recommends establishing patient safety oversight systems, EHR criteria.
When Regina Holliday needed her husband's electronic health record to help her care for him after a terminal cancer diagnosis it didn't arrive for days, was incorrect, and outdated when he was transferred to another provider. She later used the correct record to care for him until his death.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded a three-year, $72 million contract to Harris Corp. to support the expansion of the VA's Consolidated Patient Account Center across the country.
Consumer access to e-records becoming critical in view of difficulties, high cost, of face-to-face healthcare.
While the Healthcare IT Policy Committee, a federal advisory panel, is working on projects that will outline patient protections, patient privacy activists warn that allowing patients to opt out of participation in electronic health information exchanges will be critical to building public trust.
St. Jansdal Hospital in the Netherlands has extended its contract with Sydney-based iSOFT’s Lorenzo patient management solution for a further three years, in a deal worth €4.5 million.
Despite the promise of healthcare IT, an article by the Huffington Post Investigative Fund reveals that "scores of reports on file with the Food and Drug Administration detail consequences to patients when an electronic medical record system fails" and show that a central function of CPOE "has been linked to instances in which patients died or suffered serious injuries."