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Clara Maass Medical Center, a 465-bed community hospital in Belleville, N.J., that's affiliated with the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, is boosting health information exchange for its physicians.

The Medical Records Institute has announced finalists for the 2009 TEPR (Towards the Electronic Patient Record) Awards, which will be given out during the 25th annual conference Feb. 1-5 in Palm Springs, Calif.

Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ind. will develop and roll out enterprise-wide interoperable portals for physicians, patients, employees and consumers over the next two years.

A new study by clinicians at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center shows that the use of a remote monitoring technology coupled with a clinician notification system can boost patient outcomes as well as reduce costs.

The Washington D.C. Department of Health has tapped a Milwaukee-based provider of healthcare IT solutions to ensure that any medical emergencies are handled smoothly during today's Presidential Inauguration.

Eighty-five percent of hospitals in the contracting phase of an IT acquisition have signed with a CCHIT-certified vendor since November 2007, according to data from the HIMSS Analytics Database.

West Virginia University Hospitals went live this weekend with Merlin, a $90 million electronic medical records project, as part of its "Wave 2" implementation.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman's advice for President-elect Barack Obama is to spend "on things of lasting value," including healthcare information technology.

Member physicians of South Jersey Healthcare, an integrated healthcare system offering hospital, ambulatory care and home healthcare services, will soon be offered electronic health records.

Details on the economic stimulus package are unfolding optimistically for healthcare IT, according to some of the first draft language available, obtained from those close to the process.