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The HIT Policy Committee is holding a hearing today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the privacy aspects of healthcare IT found in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
The Premier healthcare alliance has contracted with San Antonio-based AirStrip Technologies to offer its 2,200 hospital members mobile healthcare information technology to boost obstetrical (OB) care.
The Henry Ford Health System has rolled out a new picture archiving and communication system.
Shared Health is slated to begin rolling out in December a solution that would give Mississippi Medicaid providers a Web-based electronic health record system and e-prescribing capability.
Getting healthcare IT up and running in doctors' offices is not the main objective behind the incentives provided by the federal government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, according to David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator of health information technology.
The Senate Finance Committee released a health reform package Tuesday that includes measures to advance healthcare IT.
21st Century Healthcare Consulting has developed and deployed a new Capacity Planner module to help improve community services offered by the UK's National Health Service.
The Health IT Standards Committee Tuesday endorsed a set of security and privacy standards for electronic health record systems that it said would get progressively tougher without holding back wider health information sharing.
Experts and federal officials close to the issue of healthcare IT adoption and the promotion of meaningful use under the new stimulus package say intentions are high, but the actual work that lies ahead is monumental.
Joe Fortuna, chairman-elect of the healthcare division of the American Society of Quality, spoke to the 21st Century Health Care Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday on Capitol Hill.