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Healthcare IT has been highlighted over the past four years in State of the Union speeches, though President Barack Obama made no mention of it in his Wednesday night speech. Some stakeholders defend the Administration's support of health IT, while others question it.
Department will set up expert group to troubleshoot incentive programs for harmful 'unintended consequences'.
A survey sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell has found that the data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe, and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.
Most personal health record offerings are not ready for prime time, says Marjorie Martin, general manager for Everyday Health, the parent company of Revolution Health. For consumers, the experience can be laborious and frustrating, she said.
Health network standards group does not rule out becoming a certification body for electronic health record systems.
The Revolution Health Web site on Wednesday e-mailed users of personal health records notifying them its service would be discontinued by the end of February.
Experts at the eHealth Initiative (eHI) conference on Tuesday were concerned that physicians may not be ready to qualify for the criteria proposed in the Jan. 13 meaningful use rule.
The information security service SecureWorks, which protects 82 healthcare companies in the United States, reported Tuesday that attempted hacker attacks aimed at its clients doubled in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Without aggressive action, personal health record platforms Dossia and Google Health may be in danger of fading into the background, according to an analyst.
When it comes to application hosting, healthcare providers are finding greater success working with software vendors than with services firms. Cerner, NaviSite and McKesson scored the highest marks, according to a new KLAS report.