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The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint electronic medical record for streamlined movement of health records between the agencies, President Obama announced on Thursday.

The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and IBM will build an information and technology-based primary-care practice model that will meet President Obama's vision for a connected healthcare system.

A massive investment in healthcare IT will be meaningless in a global economy if the technology doesn’t rein in runaway costs because healthcare spending is unsustainable in the current economic climate, according to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Twelve nonprofit healthcare organizations across Colorado will receive $2 million in grants to help them adopt health information technology.

According to a recent survey, the healthcare industry is at least 15 percent behind other industries when it comes to automation.

HIMSS09 wraps up today here in Chicago with keynote speeches from Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Naval Flight Surgeon Captain Jerry Linenger.

There are good reasons to believe that Congress will pass healthcare reform legislation in 2009, although some “dealbreakers” could derail the process.

The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is "working triple time" on preparing to help providers and vendors apply the stimulus package requirements, according to its chairman.

Only .01 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have reached a Stage 7 electronic medical record - none until the middle of 2008.

The HITECH Act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is unclear on the development of health information exchanges, and the deadlines attached to incentives have been reported all over the map.