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VA has spent more on health IT than private sector but gets better quality as a result, research showed.
National coordinator asks advisors for standards necessary to streamline hodgepodge of benefits enrollment systems.
The Premier healthcare alliance has launched an $86 million "major new strategic plan" that will help hospitals leverage informatics to meet healthcare reform measures.
The merger agreement between Merge Healthcare Incorporated and Boston-based AMICAS, Inc. was finalized on Wednesday, creating a leading medical imaging software and healthcare IT provider with strong customer relationships, significant cross selling capabilities, and a solid international presence.
Billed as "a one of a kind" event, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will host a national healthcare IT conference Thursday and Friday that is drawing some of the most prominent figures in the industry.
Chicago-based HIMSS – the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – will take an anchor spot in a new Medical Trade Center in Nashville that is being billed as "a global headquarters for healthcare events."
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is working in partnership with IT provider Carefx Corp. on a pilot project to improve and simplify the process of placing pathology orders at the point of care.
Hospedia, a UK-based provider of patient bedside entertainment, has decided to renew its patient bedside terminals in more than 150 NHS hospitals across the UK with a new contract with JAOtech.
Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech solutions, will start four project implementations for its trust-wide, computer aided medical transcription solution (CAMT), eScription.
At the American Hospital Association Conference on Monday, chief information officers at some of the most wired hospitals in the country said they would be hard pressed to qualify for stimulus package healthcare IT incentives by next year.