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Health IT Policy Committee recommends vendors use labels to clarify products are certified for first stage of meaningful use.
Even as providers work to update their security environments, hospital data continues to be at serious risk, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics.
The Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is poised to lead a multi-university consortium of researchers to create technology that will make electronic health record systems and health data exchange secure enough to gain the confidence of doctors and patients.
Although a new study finds "uneven" effort being applied to implementing clinical decision support in CPOE, some hospitals are setting the bar for its use, and this is good news that should not be overlooked, says one of the authors of the study.
Colleges will train health IT workforce, a key to making meaningful use of electronic health records a reality.
Kinetic Muscles, Inc. (KMI), a provider of neurorehabilitation technology and rehabilitation products for stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury patients, has received a two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to study a new treatment for military veterans returning from war with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Army merging battlefield medical record with pre-deployment history to enable in-theater view of longitudinal health record.
Despite high rates of health IT use, few Hawaii physicians are aware of the cost of medications they prescribe, and this impedes their ability to consider drug affordability for their patients, according to a new study.
Some of the nation's leading universities, community colleges, and major research centers will receive government awards totaling $84 million to advance the widespread adoption and meaningful use of healthcare information technology.
The President and Maine Governor explain the tenets of health reform and tools for translating it into practice.