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California picks IT outsourcing firm to tackle most complex state Medicaid Management IS project ever attempted.
Pay-for-performance programs could increase medical disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and people of low socioeconomic status, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
An explosion of data will only continue to pose challenges for CIOs and their servers. This week, EMC Corp. and IDC announced the results of an annual study that measures the growth of digital information not by terabytes or petabytes, but "zettabytes" – a unit of storage equal to one trillion gigabytes.
A commission of national healthcare experts convened by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) has unveiled a roadmap for better healthcare that calls for a "health information superhighway."
Government grants like the $220 million awarded Tuesday to 15 Beacon Communities – models for the use of healthcare information technology – will create "tens of thousands" of new jobs in an up-and-coming sector, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Several IHE profiles were endorsed for national programs throughout Europe at the 10th annual European Connectathon, which was held from April 12-16 in Bordeaux.
Beacon grantees constitute roadmap for productive and measurable uses of health IT at the community level, HHS officials say.
The government has released the names of the 15 communities across the country from Maine to Hawaii that will serve as models for the broad use of healthcare information technology under a $220 million program aimed at improving care and efficiency – and creating new jobs.
A new study by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows that electronic health records in some cases can impose higher costs to hospitals and lower quality of care.
Maryland's CRISP picks Axolotl platform to let physicians exchange clinical data through an Internet connection.