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As President Barack Obama prepared to meet with Congressional Democrats Tuesday to discuss healthcare reform, the White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report that highlights both the upside and the downside of technology.
With IT budgets squeezed, physician practices and hospitals are looking to IT vendors for ways to keep their technology projects on track - but those vendors are offering few creative solutions, according to a new report from KLAS.
HealthLINC, an Indiana-based health information exchange, has received federal funding to implement a new e-prescribing solution.
Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has published on its Web site the criteria and test scripts developed during 2009, along with a newly developed "Concise Guide to CCHIT Criteria."
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Thursday released $81.7 million in non-stimulus package funding to help expand community health center services.
Maryland intensive care patients will now be connected by voice, video and data lines to specialized physicians and nurses at a tertiary care referral center 130 miles away.
The Chesapeake Hospital Authority is ready to roll out a fully integrated clinical and revenue management information technology system at the Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, a 310-bed hospital in Chesapeake, Va.
Southwest General Hospital Center, a 356-bed medical facility based in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, has deployed a new electronic medical record for its physicians.
Health insurer Aetna, Inc., is reportedly providing 65,000 individuals with free credit monitoring for a year after its job application Web site was breached, the Associated Press has reported.