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This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group are the first to pass government muster as authorized to test and certify electronic health record systems to qualify for meaningful use incentives under the stimulus package. There are more to come.
What will it take to keep the federal government's community health data 'ecosystem' healthy?
The merger of two Atlanta-based technology firms with extensive footprints in the payer industry is designed to provide health plans and insurers with access to more consumer health data.
Detroit Medical Center executives say they have achieved improved patient safety and saved $5 million to boot, thanks to DMC's system-wide electronic medical system.
HealthInfoNet, the nonprofit organization managing the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the State of Maine, announced Monday that it will partner with Health Language, Inc. (HLI) as it transitions from a two-year demonstration project to a full statewide HIE implementation.
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, a 431-bed facility in Syracuse, N.Y., on Aug. 27, helped its neighbor Welch Allyn, a global manufacturer of medical diagnostic equipment headquartered in Skaneateles Falls, N.Y., unveil what they both billed as a cure for vital sign documentation.
The U.S. ambulatory EHR market, which was at $1.3 billion in 2009, is forecast to reach $2.6 billion in 2012, according to new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan.
The Health IT Policy Committee has created a task force to pursue the use of directories across state HIEs to support provider and patient look-up as well as to enhance public health reporting.
Health IT policymakers discuss assembling electronic directories to operate across state health information exchanges.