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Executives at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital leaders say the new electronic personal health record they launched last month is the first of its kind deployed by a major medical institution.
Steven Seltzer, MD, who heads the radiology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital here, sees unlimited opportunity for improving patient care resulting from a new research partnership with GE Healthcare.
The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint interoperable electronic medical record system.
Commentary by Carla Corkern, chief executive officer at Talyst
Editor Bernie Monegain interview Paul Tang, MD
Commentary from ITelagen CEO John O'Keefe
Associate Editor Molly Merrill’s April 10 online story “Blumenthal says HITECH faces challenges,” about ONC chief David Blumenthal’s article in the New England Journal of Medicine, yielded two detailed reader comments focused on the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
Editorial from Editor Bernie Monegain
Interest in healthcare IT adoption has surged forward recently, but the industry needs to stay focused on interoperability, cautioned experts at the World Health Care Congress.
When the federal government gets involved, speed to market is not the first thing that comes to mind. The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), however, appears to be a game changer.