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By Molly Merrill | 11:23 am | August 23, 2011
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services in Southern Arizona is using fingerprint biometrics to increase access to – and the security of – its new electronic health record system.
By Eric Wicklund | 10:21 am | August 23, 2011
Sony's MD2GO telemedicine station, which made its debut earlier this year at the HIMSS and ATA conferences, is now being offered to radiologists as a means of improving communications within the hospital – as well as beyond the hospital's walls.
By Mary Lamb | 01:15 pm | August 18, 2011
The Department of Veterans Affairs has requested $3.2 billion in its IT budget submission for FY 2012. Each investment in the budget request is assigned a sub-function classification based on the program's purpose as it relates to overall IT and federal government operations.
By Mike Miliard | 11:55 am | August 18, 2011
Just three weeks after its iPad-native EHR made news for gaining ONC-ATCB-certification, drchrono has launched an iOS app to replace paper-based patient check-in.
By Dr. John Loonsk | 11:03 am | August 18, 2011
The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) draft rule is out, and the political, clinical and technical trek is on to establish these lynchpins of the Affordable Care Act and health reform.
By Mike Miliard | 11:57 am | August 17, 2011
Curaspan Health Group unveiled its new DischargeCentral technology on Wednesday. The software-as-a-service application helps streamline patient transitions from one level of care to another.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:02 pm | August 15, 2011
Even as Oklahoma and Kansas recently said ‘no thanks’ to federal money aimed at helping them with the health information technology platform needed to create health insurance exchanges, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury last week awarded $185M more to drive the creation of the exchanges across the country.
By Mike Miliard | 11:48 am | August 15, 2011
The National Quality Forum Board of Directors has recently approved for endorsement 41 quality measures concerning child health, covering the full spectrum of care from prenatal care to standards designed for adolescents.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:24 am | August 15, 2011
GAO is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to beef up its approach to physician quality reporting, recommending CMS be more methodical in order to make the reports more reliable.
By Diana Manos | 11:12 am | August 15, 2011
THA Group, a free-standing in-home health company serving coastal Georgia and South Carolina, will partner with Cardiocom to expand its chronic telehealth program for patients with chronic conditions.