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Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., is helping a rural health network in Texas automate its financial activities and share clinical data through a community-based electronic medical record.

Three more hospitals have been recognized for attaining Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.

Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, a 254-bed hospital serving the North San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys in California, is revamping its healthcare IT with a $500,000 grant from Verizon.

The team at MultiCare Health System was exactly going for the prize when it completed its application for the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award. For them, it was all about the process. The goal was to learn and improve.

Patients being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit at MassGeneral Hospital for Children now have doctors virtually at their bedside 24/7 via a new home-to-hospital program.

GE Healthcare, Intel, and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to experiment with a new prototype for healthcare delivery, bringing care into the home for patients at risk for re-hospitalization.

An online "idea campaign" has been launched to promote innovation in the pediatric medical device market, which experts say has a higher demand than supply.

After proving itself an effective way to correct problematic IT issues and foster savings, all the information technology projects for the Department of Veterans Affairs will now be managed under its program management and accountability system (PMAS), officials said.

AMICAS, the Boston-based provider of radiology and image and information management solutions, which announced last December that it would be acquired by Chicago-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, for roughly $217 million, is now being wooed by Merge Healthcare, Inc., which is offering approximately $248 million for the company.