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Purdue University has been given $12 million in funding which will be put towards its efforts to help foster the adoption and implementation of healthcare IT.


Health professionals believe that between 50,000 and 200,000 new jobs will be created in health IT by the year 2015, according to a recent survey.

Montpellier CHRU, a Paris-based academic healthcare provider, has plans to implement a new hospital and clinical information system across its seven facilities.

Like everywhere, Detroit has been hit hard by this recession - only much, much worse. But thanks to a clever idea from a local staffing firm, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan saved 1,000 of its IT jobs from going offshore.

Australia-based IT company iSoft has announced that it is bringing its Lorenzo software to Apple's iPhone. The Lorenzo application allows medical professionals to access scans, x-rays, and patient records through a prototype that is due for release later this year.

With the introduction of “personal health systems,” eHealth in Europe focuses on interoperability.

Veterans agency wants to update its electronic health record system to monitor reaction of physicians to clinical alerts.

Shared Health, Tennessee's largest public/private health information exchange (HIE) has tapped MEDai, an Elsevier company, to provide an interoperable, HIE platform to the state.

Members of a federal health IT advisory group last week proposed to relax the number of measures that would be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems.

The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) announced Tuesday that it has extended its contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through April 30, 2010.