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President Barack Obama named Aneesh Chopra as the administration's new chief technology officer during his weekly address on Saturday.
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has developed a new accreditation program for application service providers for electronic health records.
The Mayo Clinic, in partnership with Microsoft, has launched a free online application to help patients better manage their medical information.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC staged its grand opening on April 16, with hospital executives touting the new facility as unparalleled among pediatric hospitals nationwide in its level of technological sophistication and resources dedicated to family-centered care.
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is developing an e-prescribing prototype that will facilitate prescription routing for the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY).
The New York State Department of Health will use services from APS Healthcare and Thomson Reuters for its Medicaid clinical best practice utilization review program.
When the federal government gets involved, speed to market is not the first thing that comes to mind. The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), however, is a game changer.
Although few U.S. hospitals have a comprehensive electronic health records system in place, many have parts of an EHR - which could help spur adoption faster than data may suggest, says a New England Journal of Medicine article.
Montefiore Medical Center's IT subsidiary, Emerging Health Information Technology, has signed a multi-year hosting agreement with the North Shore-LIJ Health System to provide support for a portion of North Shore's computer network.
With security breaches involving medical data on the rise, experts say hospitals must become proactive in managing their vulnerabilities.