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Legislators envision converting 44 existing primary care practices to medical home centers of coordinated care.
The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) announced last week the creation of "NHIN University," a program designed to educate and engage healthcare IT stakeholders on efforts to develop the Nationwide Health Information Network.
A Washington-based advocacy group has collected consumer and employer perspectives on the top 10 arguments concerning meaningful use. And with only a week left before the public comment period on meaningful use comes to a close, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is urging the public to weigh in with their own thoughts.
Researchers at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and UC Irvine will monitor the day-to-day health of low-birth-weight babies and their parents as part of a project designed to combat chronic illnesses associated with low-weight births.
The findings of the 21st Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Leadership Survey point towards encouraging news in the year ahead, indicating an increase in health IT spending as providers strive to meet the government's meaningful use stipulations.
Doctors who use file sharing software could be putting their patients' medical information at risk, says a recent study.
The American Medical Association (AMA) is offering physicians across the country a new online platform for access to an electronic health system from Ingenix, called CareTracker.
Medicity Inc., the Salt Lake City-based health information exchange (HIE) company, has announced iNexx, its new "Health 4.0" platform, which bridges systems, networks and people to create a care model that keeps the patient as the focus at all times.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clarifies that lab safety law permits electronic lab test data exchange.
But plans are already underway to expand HealthInfoNet once its demonstration phases ends this summer.