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The Senate voted 61 to 37 Tuesday afternoon to approve an $838 billion stimulus package, according to The Washington Post.
San Jose, Calif.-based healthcare IT company Axolotl has created a four-person team dedicated to building New York's statewide health information network. The SHIN-NY development team will work with the New York Department of Health and the New York eHealth Collaborative.
President Barack Obama pushed the urgency of an economic stimulus package during his first televised national address Monday night. Included in that package, he said, is funding for healthcare IT.
Huron Valley Physicians Association, an independent physician association, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is joining My One Health Information Exchange (my1HIE), an HIE formed by physician organizations in Southeast Michigan.
The market for bringing healthcare data from disparate sources into one view is growing by leaps, according to a new study from KLAS, a healthcare research firm based in Orem, Utah. The study notes that software giant Microsoft is rapidly expanding its footprint in what KLAS calls an emerging aggregation market.
Two physician-class-action lawsuits have been filed against Aetna Health, Inc. and the CIGNA Corporation.
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group company, and IBM are collaborating with select primary care physician practices in Arizona to launch the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that electronic medical records can be used to test drug efficacy.
The Marshfield Clinic will roll out new business intelligence software to boost operations not only in the business centers, but also to improve care with better data.
The Alabama Medicaid Agency, a state and federal program that pays for medical and long-term care services for low-income individuals, is using information technology to transform the way it delivers care to recipients.