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The Army is testing a range of commercial mobile devices to carry the military's electronic medical records applications.
Wolters Kluwer Health's Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), an academic publisher for medical students, has acquired Knoxville, Tenn.-based iCare Academic, the maker of iCare EMR, an educational program that simulates electronic medical records to prepare future nurses for 21st century healthcare.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is establishing several "communities of practice" to help its Beacon program establish clinical decision support technologies, care transitions programs, and pharmacy solutions and tools in healthcare improvement projects.
Two new publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are aimed at helping developers of software and computer systems for doctors' offices, clinics and hospitals make electronic health record systems easier to use.
With T SystemEV, Great Plains Regional Medical Center is now contributing emergency department (ED) health information to the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII), the nation's first and most successful statewide HIE organization.
Beacon communities assemble structure for healthcare improvement projects, technical support and reporting function, ONC says.
The fate of a bill that would exempt doctors and other providers from complying with the Federal Trade Commission's Red Flags Rule now rests in the hands of President Obama.
Healthcare CIOs cite CPOE capabilities as major hurdle to qualify for EHR incentives, according to CHIME survey.
GE Healthcare has announced a cost-effective, subscription-based library of online courses, through which nurses can receive continuing education credit in clinical care, leadership and development to help improve outcomes and lower costs.
With many of them citing CPOE capabilities as a major hurdle, the number of CIOs who expect their hospitals to qualify early for stimulus funding for EHR implementation has dropped by half, according to a recent survey by the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).