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By Bernie Monegain | 07:45 am | August 18, 2009
Calling its role in the healthcare IT realm "mission accomplished," officials at the National Health Alliance for Health Information Technology will end a seven-year run.
By Kyle Hardy | 11:11 am | August 17, 2009
U.S Home Health Care, a Chicago-based provider of home healthcare services, has launched a new solution designed to help streamline referral orders and other workflows.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:08 am | August 17, 2009
Boston Medical Center is projected to generate an additional $7 million each year by automating – and thereby improving – its referral process.
By Bernie Monegain | 08:49 am | August 17, 2009
A new IBM study reveals that one in four Americans have not scheduled a "wellness" visit within the last year - due, in part, to paperwork.
By Diana Manos | 12:17 pm | August 14, 2009
The Health IT Policy Committee, a federal advisory panel, adopted additional recommendations from its Meaningful Use Workgroup on Friday that had physicians, activists, vendors and others warning that the government was moving too fast.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:43 am | August 14, 2009
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, managed by the Cleveland Clinic, has gone live with an electronic imaging system to manage the storage, retrieval and viewing of radiological images.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:06 am | August 14, 2009
Several leading academic medical centers and community health systems have formed a coalition to join the debate over the direction of healthcare information technology.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:35 am | August 14, 2009
Verizon is wading into the ever-complicated healthcare security field with two new offerings designed to help protect electronically transmitted healthcare data.
By Chip Means | 12:40 pm | August 13, 2009
The demands of the National Health Service's ambitious information technology projects have led one Scotland-based trust to merge its multi-site helpdesk systems into a central location.
By Diana Manos | 11:34 am | August 13, 2009
The National Cyber Security Alliance announced Wednesday that it will add Google to its board of directors.