ALSO NOTED: AHIP promotes health IT for cost-cutting; UCSF creates infosec task force after break-ins; and much more...

> Health insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans is pushing the adoption of EMRs and other health IT as a means of cutting healthcare costs. Article

> The University of California-San Francisco has created a special information security task force in response to two recent security breaches involving patient medical data. Article

> Experts are predicting that the number of physicians adopting e-prescribing technology will hit 85,000 by the end of 2008. Article

> Political observers say the onset of Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) illness may delay,  if not completely scuttle, Kennedy-backed privacy provisions in pending legislation designed to establish a national health IT system. Article

And Finally...  Why did Japanese scientists create such a small noodle bowl? Because they could! Article

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