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Consumer appetite for electronic health records, online tools and services continues to grow, according to the results of the 2009 Deloitte Survey of Health Care Consumers.
Researchers at the University of Michigan are using high-productivity computing (HPC) systems to conduct pioneering research aimed at predicting and preventing heart arrhythmias.
Critical care patients at seven of Chicago-based Resurrection Health Care's hospitals are far less likely to develop complications and have extended ICU stays since the health system implemented an advanced information technology system.
As part of an ongoing ambulatory electronic medical record deployment, the Lehigh Valley Health Network in eastern Pennsylvania is refining its EMR training processes.
Minnesotans will soon have access to a virtual clinic, thanks to a partnership between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and American Well.
An obstetrics application for use on the iPhone has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, says the Texas-based company that created it.
The Quantum Group, Inc., a Wellington, Fla.-based provider of business solutions for the healthcare industry, will subsidize an EHR for its 550 Renaissance-affiliated primary care physicians in Florida.
David Blumenthal, MD, the newly appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, sees "major hurdles" for the HITECH Act, according to a New England Journal of Medicine article.
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has released two reports that show how nearly 40 percent of its physicians use health information technology on a regular basis.
Paul Tang, MD, chief medical information officer of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, a member of the editorial board of Healthcare IT News, and Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are among 13 members recently named to a new federal advisory committee on healthcare information technology.