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Frost & Sullivan estimates the Health Information Technology market by revenue in 2008, in APAC (Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Australia) was close to USD5.04 billion with an annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.8 percent from 2005-2008.
Beauregard Memorial Hospital, a 60-bed, acute care and community hospital, has selected open-source technology to automate its medical records.
The Obama adminstration's chief for healthcare IT technology David Blumenthal, MD, was on the healthcare IT message from dawn to dusk Thursday - a part of the White House campaign to save its troubled healthcare reform plans.
David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health information technology, and John Glaser, adviser to the Office of the National Coordinator, have joined a new presidential advisory council on science and technology.
An EHR program that cut cardiac deaths by 73 percent has also kept patients healthy two years later, according to a new study.
Several leading academic medical centers and community health systems have formed a coalition to join the debate over the direction of healthcare information technology.
Yes, we are smack dab in the middle of an escalating public debate over healthcare reform, and its proposed nearly trillion-dollar price tag seems to be aggravating a growing negative vibe about the benefits of the stimulus pack. If Americans are peeved about the cost of the stimulus package and the speed of economic recovery, where does this leave healthcare IT, which scored a hefty $20 billion in that deal?
The State Alliance for e-Health last month issued new guidance for state health information exchanges.
Maine has launched what officials are calling the largest statewide health information exchange in the nation that uses clinical data. And the Obama administration’s healthcare IT chief says it could be a model for the rest of the country even as Connecticut, New York, Maryland Massachusetts are launching launch their own HIE initiatives this summer.
By many accounts, most small, rural hospitals across the country lack the upfront capital that would position them to take advantage of federal funds intended to boost the uptake and use of information technology.