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Lack of financing has caused mental health and human services to lag far behind general healthcare in access to health information technology, according to a national survey of more than 400 organizations.
Legislation was introduced during a hearing of the House Committee on Small Business' Subcommittee on Regulations and Healthcare earlier this week to help small medical practices in adopting healthcare IT.
The Premier healthcare alliance, made up of more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and more than 58,999 other healthcare sites, told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Friday that standards are vital for achieving the full potential of electronic health records.
Fifty-six organizations have shown support for the Markle Connecting for Health Collaborative's Common Framework for Networked Personal Health Information - a set of practices to improve consumer access to personal health information and protect privacy.
Two laptops containing the health information of more than 300,000 people were reported stolen from Alberta Health Services, leading the information and privacy commissioner of the Canadian province to question the organization's level of security.
As the federal economic stimulus package moves to fund leading applications of health information technology, Indiana has launched an initiative to call attention to its leadership on the healthcare IT front.
Medical device companies have been slow to adopt Total Product Lifecycle (TPLC) management practices, according to a new study.
The state of Arizona and the Phoenix area have experienced a high adoption rate for electronic medical records, but this has been followed by a "deinstallation" of the technology, according a report by HealthLeaders-InterStudy.
Bridges to Excellence has launched five new reward programs for physicians to assess improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and management of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), coronary artery disease and hypertension.
The West Wireless Health Institute, a San Diego-based medical research organization, is collaborating with Corventis, Inc. to launch the institute's first clinical research program. The new program will look into how to lower hospital readmissions among heart disease patients.