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Hospitals make progress collecting and reporting health care-associated infection (HAI) data to a national network.
The Health IT Policy Committee's newest work group will propose governance processes for how to use the nationwide health information network.
With the market for healthcare IT-related products growing faster than ever and evolving constantly, it can be a dizzying task to keep track of what's out there.
"The IT aspect of medical marijuana is only just being approached," says John Lee, founder of Boyes Hot Springs, Calif.-based Plainview Systems, a new online service that allows qualified patients to "create virtual collectives and, through those collectives, buy, sell and trade marijuana goods, products and services."
Four months after Intuit, the maker of small business-focused financial software, announced its acquisition of Medfusion, a maker of front- and back-office software for improving patient-to-provider communications, the merger has completed, with Intuit's Quicken Health Group combining with Medfusion to become Intuit Health.
With three big purchases in less than a month, Ingenix - the IT arm of the payer UnitedHealth - continues to bolster itself for a fast-changing healthcare environment.
Smartphones, telephones such as the iPhone or Blackberry that can run programs and connect to the Internet in addition to their more mundane uses, are increasingly being used as venues for healthcare information technology.
Electronic health records could help prevent pediatric misdiagnosis, according to a recent survey of 750 pediatricians across the country.
L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, has approved $529,000 to support five Los Angeles County community clinics’ health information technology projects.
Staff at Open Door Family Medical Center in Ossining, N.Y., last month were preparing for a site visit to determine whether they would land a HIMSS Davies Community Health Organization (CHO) award this year.