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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has selected Accenture as one of four contractors to vie for task orders under its Information Technology Support Services Contract (ITSSC), which will be used to acquire a wide range of IT systems development and modernization services.
Trying to build a critical mass of physicians to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) and participate in health information exchanges (HIEs) is one of the more difficult tasks for HIEs and regional health information exchanges.
Bonnie Cassidy, vice president of HIM product management at Reston, Va.-based QuadraMed and the president-elect of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), sat down with Healthcare IT News at AHIMA's 82nd annual convention and exhibit to talk about the importance of the health information management profession, and her vision for the future.
HIMSS has launched a State HIT Dashboard to provide healthcare professionals, policy makers and stakeholders a snapshot of major health information technology initiatives underway across the nation.
Carestream Health has announced that its new cesium iodide CARESTREAM DRX-1C detector is now available around the world in countries where it is approved for use.
The U.S. Army awarded healthcare software provider InterSystems Corp. a grant to deploy its technology to set up health information exchange services among military and commercial healthcare providers across the Puget Sound, Wash., region.
Covisint announced on Monday its acquisition of DocSite, a Raleigh, N.C.-based clinical decision support and quality performance management company whose web-based solutions aim to make better patient care easier for docs.
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have launched their fourth virtual lifetime electronic record (VLER) data sharing pilot in Spokane, Wash., the latest in a program aimed at testing the exchange of patient information over the nationwide health information network (NHIN).
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will analyze data submitted by Quality Health Network to see if health information exchange positively impacts the use of healthcare services.
Saint Luke's Health System (SLHS) in Kansas City, Mo., is boosting its care coordination through an automated ordering process that links its ambulatory physicians with hospital and freestanding reference laboratories, imaging centers and patients.