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There is a great deal of resistance to healthcare reform because industry players make so much money from the current system, said George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Attendees refilled Chicago's McCormick Place Monday morning for day two of the HIMSS09 Annual Conference and Exhibition.
Over 20 years of successful experience with electronic health records makes the Veterans' Health Administration a great model for the public sphere, according to an attendee at Sunday's "Veteran-centric Care: Putting the Power of Technology and Patient Care at the Core" session at HIMSS09.
Actor Dennis Quaid brought the importance of electronic prescriptions and bar-coding close to the heart with the story of the near-deaths of his newborn twins from a medical error in 2007.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition opened Sunday morning here in Chicago.
Surescripts has named Harry Totonis, as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius expressed strong support of healthcare IT in both of her confirmation hearings this week before Congress. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on her nomination as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary as early as next week.
The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER) bill, designed to coordinate a prescription monitoring program in all 50 states, has received preliminary funding to begin implementation.
With a pledge to do their share to transform healthcare and help combat chronic disease, the CEOs of General Electric and Intel announced Thursday a partnership focused on the home health monitoring market.
Biomedical informatics researchers at the Mayo Clinic and IBM have launched a Web site for the newly founded Open Health Natural Language Processing (NLP) Consortium, which will facilitate an open-source space to promote past and current development efforts, including participation in information extraction from electronic medical records.