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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.
GE Healthcare's lead in the U.S. ultrasound system market in 2009 coupled with its strength in the fast-growing emerging ultrasound system segment, has positioned the company for robust growth through 2014, according to Millennium Research Group.
The Senate Appropriations Committee wants more details about how the Defense Department plans to modernize its electronic health record system, which DOD is upgrading in coordination with the Veterans Affairs Department.
Many questions relate to how to ensure providers meet meaningful use for systems they are already using.
Hyland Software announced Friday that it had purchased privately-held Computer Systems Company, Inc., a Strongsville, Ohio-based provider of business and clinical healthcare software and document conversion services.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, alongside the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has sent a joint letter to Regional Extension Center project officers nationwide, pledging assistance in achieving an electronically enabled healthcare system.
Senate Appropriations Committee directs DOD and VA to report on plans to coordinate their EHR modernization projects.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to correct a few inconsistencies in the meaningful use final rule it published in July and will post on its Web site more detailed guidance for providers on how to meet quality measures required by the health IT incentive program.
It's not ARRA incentives that are encouraging doctors buy EHRs: rather, they're making the purchase because they want more efficiency in their practices, according to a new study.
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.