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Electronic health record vendors - among them Allscripts, Ingenix, IBM, Cardinal Health - have announced EHR loans and guarantee deals in recent weeks.

Banner Health is using new technology to combat one of the leading killers in hospitals today - a life-threatening condition caused by a bloodstream infection.

National Ambulatory Medical Survey shows that physicians' use of any EHR system jumped by 18.7 percent from 2007-2008.

FDA Sentinel network to scan Harvard-Pilgrim health plan data for adverse events involving medical products.

Clinical quality reporting and measures tied to outcome improvement are major topics for meaningful use work group.

Athens Regional Medical Center will deploy a new electronic medical record and practice management system.

Four of every 10 office-based physicians use electronic health records, according to 2009 preliminary estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The "hand of thoughtful policy" created the proposed criteria for meaningful use, according to David J. Brailer, MD, former healthcare IT czar for the Office of the National Coordinator.

The Premier healthcare alliance's QUEST: High Performing Hospitals program, which includes nearly 200 not-for profit hospitals in 34 states across the country, is using rigorous measures to spur hospitals to new levels of performance.

Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions attributes big jumps in its second quarter 2009 revenue and profit to the "stimulus" effect, and CEO Glen Tullman is predicting even better news in the year ahead.