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Most hospitals have got quite a ways to go to achieve the stage 3 (nee 2015) goals for meaningful use, but most are on the right track.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, GE Healthcare is playing an important role, offering what it says is the "most comprehensive IT solution for healthcare support" in the history of the games.
The European Patients Forum (EPF), an organization of patient coalitions, recently launched a new website aimed at providing immediate access to health information for patients and patient advocacy groups.
The White House on Friday called for the creation of a government-wide task force to strengthen coordination of healthcare IT among federal agencies that hold key roles in carrying out the administration's plans for a digital healthcare system.
Proposal would give White House and health agency execs seats at national coordinator's planning table.
Ten states are being awarded over $100 million in federal grant funds that will be used on healthcare IT to improve care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and added $8.1 million to healthcare costs in 2006 alone, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking action to beef up healthcare IT cybersecurity by appointing a new chief privacy officer and offering a new contract to study cybersecurity.
Electronic healthcare record adoption has increased by 3.2 percent in physician offices since February 2009, according to a new survey.