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Despite a rise in the number of hospitals implementing computerized physician order entry (CPOE) since the government launched its incentive program for electronic health record adoption two years Read more...

Here at FierceHealthcare, we tend to leave the bits and bytes stuff to our sister publication FierceHealthIT. But we thought the following story was important enough that you might want to hear about Read more...

Over the past year, many state and federal initiatives have been launched which have attempted to bring more physicians into the EMR fold. But few, unfortunately, have had the support of physician Read more...

> Presidential candidates are increasingly accepting that health IT use will be necessary to make health reform proposals work. Read more...

A recent study of physician EHR adoption has found that not only price, but also concerns about productivity loss and technical issues are holding back adoption of EHRs within individual physician practices. The study, which was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, surveyed 1,345 Massachusetts physicians to learn what was holding back EHRs adoption in their practices. One the one hand, the EHR adoption rate for individual physicians …

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Georgia's largest health insurer plans to offer its members a personalized medical record that can be accessed over the Internet. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia just unveiled "the personal health record" and said it will be available to the insurer's 3.1 million members starting in late August. Kaiser Permanente, meanwhile, is planning to roll out an electronic health record in Georgia's Gwinnett County this week. All 286,000 of Georgia's Kaiser members will be able to use it …

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To build world-class hospitals in India, leading facilities are relying heavily on IT to put in place world-class processes. Offering lessons for healthcare IT folks back here in the States, IT in India has begun to take off in the healthcare industry at a rate never seen before, local experts say. While linkage between IT and healthcare is not a new phenomenon there, its adoption rate has begun to speed up. Unfortunately, that also means healthcare data is more at risk than ever before. …

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