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The Hunan Provincial Government of the People's Republic of China has struck an agreement with Perot Systems to provide healthcare organization of the province with IT consulting services.
An electronic tool to help alert physicians about patients at risk for birth defects or pregnancy complications is being developed through a three-year cooperative agreement with a $1.2 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's genetic services branch.
Cisco and UnitedHealth Group officials announced Wednesday that they would build a nationwide telehealth network to deliver healthcare services to rural and underserved areas.
Community colleges are a "perfect fit" for filling an IT void and training a new workforce to assist small physician practices, according to Allan Korn MD, senior vice president of Clinical Affairs and CMO at BlueCross BlueShield Association.
Thirty-seven hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa will implement hospital information systems as part of an initiative to deliver EHRs to all patients in the Gauteng province.
The Electronic Health Records Association has released recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on measurable criteria for achieving "meaningful use" of EHRs.
Medicare beneficiaries are using the Internet to help manage their health, according to a Kaiser Permanente survey.
About 45,000 office-based physicians may be eligible for up to $63,750 in ARRA funding over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new study.
Social networking tools are slowly making their way into the curricula of medical and nursing schools, according to a study published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
Cook Children's Health Care System, a not-for-profit, pediatric healthcare organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, is partnering with athenhealth and Microsoft to launch a new national clinical platform that aims at improving care for pediatric patients.