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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has named two healthcare policy experts to manage its "Beacon" communities project, a $200 million grant program designed to showcase how health IT can improve population health.

Office ramps up program to showcase ways IT underpins community information sharing and population health.

NHS Lincolnshire has completed the deployment of a new wireless LAN architecture into 12 of its key healthcare facilities.

Forty-eight upstate New York hospitals earned more than $22 million in quality improvement incentive payments from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield as part of the health insurer's Hospital Performance Incentive Program.

Vitality, Inc. and AT&T announced Tuesday that AT&T will provide the nationwide wireless network connection for Vitality GlowCaps, intelligent pill caps designed to help patients take medications regularly.

The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is going digital across its campus in order to automate paper processes in nearly every area of the medical center.

Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust has implemented Imprivata OneSign to provide 3,500 clinicians with faster access to patient information.

Jason Hess, general manager of clinical research at Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS, says he expects to see change in clinical information system sales going forward.

Draft describes tests that will be required to ensure vendors meet meaningful use certification criteria.

Riding on the surge of interest in telecommunications created by this month’s launch of the National Broadband Plan, Verizon Business has announced a partnership with Cisco to boost video conferencing.