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A personal health record pilot announced in August by Medicare for Arizona and Utah residents got its official start on Tuesday.

The RAND Corporation has launched an online tool that provides policymakers and interested parties with a resource to help understand and evaluate the effects of healthcare reform.

United HealthGroup has agreed to a $50 million settlement following an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into charges that the insurer overcharged its members millions of dollars for healthcare.

A report from the National Research Council says efforts aimed at the nationwide deployment of HIT will not be sufficient to achieve medical leaders' vision of healthcare in the 21st Century and may even set back the cause.

Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute will use real-time reminders to conduct a clinical trial on patient adherence and clinical outcomes for people with glaucoma.

The government unveiled an updated EHR-ready version of the Surgeon General's Internet-based family health history tool on Tuesday.

Integration capability weighs heavily on hospital executives replacing legacy lab systems and revenue management technology, according to two new reports from research firm KLAS.

The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and healthcare providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010.

The Utah Health Information Network is poised to provide care providers with complete access to patient data. UHIN tapped San Jose-based Axolotl for the technology and services to power the network.

The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 191 of their affiliated hospitals, has signed a three-year agreement extending radio frequency identification to all its members in the United States.