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The findings of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey point towards encouraging news in the year ahead, indicating an increase in health IT spending as providers strive to meet the government's meaningful use stipulations.
Doctors who use file sharing software could be putting their patients' medical information at risk, says a recent study.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.
Medicity Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new "Health 4.0" platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clarifies that lab safety law permits electronic lab test data exchange.
But plans are already underway to expand HealthInfoNet once its demonstration phases ends this summer.
The biggest challenge in healthcare delivery is the fragmentation of the system and the clinical information gaps that result, according to Susan DeVore, president and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance.
In his inaugural appearance at HIMSS10, David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, reiterated his support for healthcare IT, calling information the "lifeblood of medicine."
In a keynote, national coordinator lays out goals for a plan that has no precedent 'in the history of healthcare.'
Federal Health Architecture community shows off the fruits of a year's work on Nationwide Health Information Network.