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ALSO NOTED: NYC mayor offers $27M for physician EMR adoption; Group focuses on health data interoperability; and much more...

By admin
Created Apr 14 2008 - 6:59am

> A foundation run by New York City's mayor has put up $27 million to help the city's doctors adopt EMRs. Article [1]

> A new professional organization has formed to focus on health data interoperability. Article [2]

> As if WellCare didn't have enough problems already, it's now come out that the organization recently exposed up to 71,000 patient records on the Internet. Article [3]

> A new study suggests that nursing homes will need to boost their IT infrastructure to participate in health data exchanges. Article [4]

And Finally...  Well, if you're going to be a smuggler, you might as well smuggle something cool (scaly?) and green. Article [5]


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