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The reaction to the long-anticipated Stage 3 meaningful use rules has been slow in coming, but a few people have managed to wade through the hundreds of pages since they were released late Friday afternoon. They're cautiously optimistic.
Hospitalist pioneer and patient safety guru Robert M. Wachter, MD, writes in a New York Times op-ed that health IT has been a letdown in many ways, especially when it comes to improving quality and safety.
(SPONSORED) Jeff Townsend, executive vice president and chief of staff at Cerner, gives the scoop about iCentra, an integrated EHR that Intermountain Healthcare and Cerner are configuring together.
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An arm of the Defense Department's Military Health System joined the HIE to improve the quality of care while also reducing costs.
The new Stage 3 meaningful use rules proposed Friday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seek to give providers more flexibility, simplify the program, drive interoperability among electronic health records and put the focus on improved patient outcomes.
Epic Systems, known for its health IT technology -- with the lion's share of EHR systems in hospitals across the country -- now is garnering attention for its Deep Space auditorium at its Verona, Wis., campus.
A cloud-based EHR company in Florida is getting a venture capital boost after IBM announced it was making an investment. One plan is to build off its platforms, including a real-time clinical decision support app powered by Watson.
VirtuMedix enters its second year with an eye on usability, scalability and a more favorable reimbursement environment.
(SPONSORED) Innovations in mobility, cloud and M2M technology have allowed healthcare organizations to transform how they do business and care for patients. But those same technologies can leave organizations and their valuable data vulnerable.