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The convergence of personal health records and mobile communication devices may offer the right tool to engage consumers to use technology for self-care, taking cost out of the healthcare system, according to a new Deloitte Issue Brief from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Spending on state and local health IT systems will increase by 19 percent over the next five years, forecasts a new report from market research firm INPUT.
Systems integrator will test new features of the NHIN for real world uses including secure health record sharing.
The GasthuisZusters Antwerpen (GZA) Hospital Group in Belgium has implemented a new temperature monitoring solution across its three hospitals to monitor and manage the temperature in refrigerators that contain temperature-sensitive items, such as pharmaceuticals and blood.
The University of Texas at Austin's new Health Information Technology program is being bolstered by a $2.7 million federal grant that will support four programs aimed at "fast tracking" university graduates into the field of healthcare information technology.
U.S. hospitals have a lot of work to do to transform the current paper-based healthcare system to an electronic one, say the authors of a new Harvard study.
Maine has won approval from the federal government for the full use of its grant of nearly $6.6 million to expand and coordinate health information technology throughout the state, Gov. John E. Baldacci announced on Wednesday.
Lockheed Martin has announced two new agreements to support the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). The contracts, which were awarded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), total $9 million over two years.
Comparing vendor prices at the time of a purchase is just the start for hospitals and health systems that want to get their money's worth from an EMR system, concludes a new report from research firm KLAS. Epic and MEDITECH come out on top for meeting expectations.
The Department of Health and Human Services has made available an online tool from its Healthcare.gov Web site that streamlines the public's search for insurance coverage options.