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Integration capability weighs heavily on hospital executives replacing legacy lab systems and revenue management technology, according to two new reports from research firm KLAS.
The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and healthcare providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010.
The Utah Health Information Network is poised to provide care providers with complete access to patient data. UHIN tapped San Jose-based Axolotl for the technology and services to power the network.
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 191 of their affiliated hospitals, has signed a three-year agreement extending radio frequency identification to all its members in the United States.
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to create jobs by employing information technology to improve healthcare.
Michigan CardioVascular Institute, a Saginaw, Mich.-based group practice of cardiologists and heart surgeons, is poised to implement an electronic health records and practice management system in preparation for a pay-for-performance environment.
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund.
The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.
Health Level Seven (HL7), a healthcare IT standards development organization, has passed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved standard that specifies basic functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record system.
Blaming a stagnant economy that's forcing hospitals to curtail expenditures, Cardinal Health on Thursday lowered its fiscal-year guidance for 2009.