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There is no denying that achieving President Obama’s goal, now law, of having electronic health records for every American by 2014 is a daunting task and one that challenges most healthcare organizations.

As hospital systems and other healthcare providers with complex organizations – struggle to prepare for health reform and advances in health IT, a simple procedural approach will help.

Many of us probably have had our fill of talk about “meaningful use.” Perhaps some of us thought we would have the last word on it on June 16 when the federal Health IT Policy Committee provided some recommended criteria to the nation’s healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal.

Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has unveiled the beta release of the Office of Management and Budget's IT Dashboard, a new Web site that tracks federal information technology investments.

Economically healthy industries empower workers to make decisions, compensate based on productivity and use a lot of information technology. The healthcare industry doesn't do any of this – yet.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, a not-for-profit organization providing care in more than 30 pediatric specialties, has launched a new Web site focused on a family approach to healthy lifestyles.

Centre Hospitalier du Mans in France has selected Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS hospital and clinical information system to support the implementation of a full electronic patient record solution.

The majority of American adults look online for health information and most are accessing reviews and comments posted by fellow consumers, according to a new report.

As the battle over health reform wages, someone vested in healthcare IT may wonder, how does this concern me? How much change can I expect?

The public is not likely to adopt the use of human implantable chips, says John Halamka, MD, CIO at Harvard Medical School and CareGroup in Massachusetts, who still has one implanted in his arm.