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ONC seeks firm to test ability to re-identify personal health data that has been scrubbed of digital links to an individual.
Complying with the government's "meaningful use" definition to qualify for federal incentives will require a balancing act between improving patient care and using IT, says an expert from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory electronic medical record software will enable them to meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal government, according to a new report from KLAS.
The Mountain States Health Alliance has deployed new electronic health record and practice management solutions for its 300 employed and affiliated physicians and mid-level providers.
Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, expects to roll out an acute care documentation pilot project later this year.
The James Paget NHS Trust has entered into a second agreement with NextiraOne, a Europe-based communication services provider, to build additional dedicated data center facilities and provide a new communications platform.
AdvancedMD Software, provider of practice and revenue cycle management software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, has acquired PracticeOne, EHR provider.
Prospective applicants for $60 million in grants to conduct advanced research in health information technology learned Monday that any of their findings should be able to be put to practical use quickly to help extend the meaningful uses of electronic health records.
HealthSouth, which provides inpatient rehabilitative services in 26 states, has implemented an automated recruitment platform to streamline the company's recruiting process and increase efficiency and privacy.
The Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects program will focus on barriers to adoption of electronic health records.