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A bill in California aimed at strengthening the state's existing data breach notification requirements will become law on January 1, 2012.
The largest urban health simulation and training facility of its kind opened Tuesday at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital Center.
Roger Baker, VA CIO, has become one of the testers in preparation for VA permitting iPads and iPhones to be used on the job, especially by physicians.
The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur.
Hospitals appearing in the August online ranking of U.S. News Best Hospitals 2011-12 used HIMSS Analytics' Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale to select the top 140 hospitals. All hospitals on the list rank at Stage 6 or Stage 7 on the EMRAM.
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will help Indiana University researchers better understand how technologies can help underserved aging adults remain at home.
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that investment in the meaningful use of electronic health records pays off in terms of care quality – most of all when compared to archaic, paper-based records.
In both technology and healthcare, groundbreaking ideas are frequently ahead of their time. Remember Apple's Newton?
For the nation's hospitals, information requirements of the federal government's imminent reimbursement reform initiative called value-based purchasing are starting out easy. Deceptively easy.
In this story from last fall, United States Surgeon General Regina Benjamin explained how the destruction wrought by Hurricanes George and Katrina inspired her rural Gulf Coast clinic to finally switch from paper to electronic records.