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The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel and its partner in health IT advancement, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology – no slackers to the cause – have seen their work skyrocket – since the passage of the stimulus package in February.
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) has introduced legislation aimed at facilitating nationwide adoption of electronic health records, particularly among small, rural providers.
Technology of varying types is making it possible to track new cases of Swine Flu in close to real time.
The United Hospital System, which serves southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, is deploying an ambulatory and performance management solution across its acute care and outpatient settings.
The Health Economics Research Institute is looking for research proposals that advance market-based reforms to improve the healthcare delivery system.
Department of Defense agents last week searched the Malvern, Pa. headquarters of Siemens Medical Solutions in a reported investigation into a military contract Siemens was awarded in recent weeks.
A pilot clinical trial of a tool that analyzes patterns of muscle recruitment hopes to improve the accuracy of diagnosis, rehabilitation and case management decisions of musculoskeletal dysfunction of the back and neck.
According to a recent survey, social media influenced nearly 40 percent of hospital or urgent care center patients.
St. Jude Medical, which focuses on cardiac, neurological and chronic care technology, has received the European CE Mark for its Merlin.net Patient Care Network, an Internet-based remote care system that gathers and stores data from implanted cardiac devices.
Holding their first joint conference, partisans of Health 2.0 and Ix (Information Therapy) agreed that the U.S. health delivery system needs reform and that technology can provide the means to do so - but disagreed on the prescription for change.