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HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, has recognized 15 hospitals with its first Stage 7 Award.
Add electronic medical records to the wares giant retailer Wal-Mart plans to offer soon. Wal-Mart executives announced last month they would have EMRs available for sale by spring.
The people behind Paperfree Tampa Bay foresee the $18 million initiative as President Barack Obama’s vision made good. They have set their sights for the 10-county, 8,000-physician e-prescribing pilot launched Monday on no less than 100 percent adoption. They’ll achieve it, they say, by going to physicians door-to-door and providing the help they need to get on board.
The issue around ownership of electronic health information must be addressed before it can be used to improve healthcare, says a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County, a California-based independent physician organization and the lead participant in the Santa Cruz Health Information Exchange, has implemented a community-wide virtual health record for its physicians.
Amid the "most perilous time we've ever seen," healthcare IT and innovation can drive fundamental changes in the U.S. healthcare system, David Brailer, MD, former federal healthcare IT czar, told attendees at the Health Tech Investment Forum here on Tuesday.
The Cleveland Clinic, a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center, will use radio frequency identification to track patient files.
Healthcare research firm KLAS has released the KLAS EMR Toolkit to help providers make informed choices regarding stimulus-related technology decisions.
Remote patient monitoring technology enables healthcare providers to treat patients before their conditions becomes more acute, according to a new study from the Spyglass Consulting Group.
Montana has launched a pilot program that facilitates data sharing to detect outbreaks associated with bioterrorism.