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Following a tour Thursday of the Cleveland Clinic, President Barack Obama held up the organization as a model of how information technology can contribute to high quality, cost-effective care.
Hospitals and other health organizations that are part of a health information exchange are well positioned to qualify for federal stimulus money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Fletcher Allen Health Care, a Vermont-based provider of health services to 850,000 citizens, has deployed a new clinical workflow solution in an effort to increase access to patient information from different systems.
More than 225 volunteers with the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) are updating and broadening certification programs for electronic health record technologies.
Medfusion is boosting its offerings for physicians and their patients with the acquisition of Medem’s iHealth suite of services and the iHealth PHR. The company has also announced an agreement with Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions to provide the Medfusion patient portal to Allscripts’ electronic health record and practice management clients nationwide.
The American Medical Association says more healing is needed before it can pronounce healthcare's claims process cured.
The WebMD Health corporation has rolled out a new medical application for physicians that's designed to make healthcare information more accessible for the on-the-go situations.
Pen and paper workarounds used in conjunction with an electronic medical record system may make EMRs even more useful, suggests a new study.
The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by reducing administrative complexity, according to a new report from the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.
Universal coverage could swamp the healthcare system unless steps are taken to create innovative new care delivery models such as telehealth and online doctor appointments, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers.