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Army merging battlefield medical record with pre-deployment history to enable in-theater view of longitudinal health record.
Despite high rates of health IT use, few Hawaii physicians are aware of the cost of medications they prescribe, and this impedes their ability to consider drug affordability for their patients, according to a new study.
Some of the nation's leading universities, community colleges, and major research centers will receive government awards totaling $84 million to advance the widespread adoption and meaningful use of healthcare information technology.
The President and Maine Governor explain the tenets of health reform and tools for translating it into practice.
Grants to Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Illinois and Texas fund ways to crack health IT's toughest challenges.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to the Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Funds will provide extra support to small rural and critical access hospitals in setting up electronic healthcare systems.
Deloitte will assist states with infrastructure, governance and technical operations in setting up health information exchanges.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthcare and health IT strategy.
Doylestown Hospital near Philadelphia has launched the next phase of its health IT connectivity initiative to share information with community physicians.