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Despite benefits, telemedicine barriers remain high Increasingly, it's become obvious that telemedicine has a place in the healthcare system, not only to improve care but also to conserve resources. Read more...

Microsoft extended itself a bit further into the healthcare IT marketplace this week, with the release of a new set tools designed to help developers create user interfaces for healthcare apps. The Read more...

UPDATED 5/7/08 For the RHIO/HIE movement to really explode, it will take help from states, according to a new consulting firm study. The IDC Research company Health Industry Insights study looked at Read more...

What providers can learn from FacebookBlogger Tony Chen of Hospital Impact recently spent some time exploring the exploding world of social networking online, most notably Read more...

Since launching three and a half years ago, more than 10.8 million e-prescriptions have been transmitted over Massachusetts' payer-backed e-network. During the past six months alone, says eRX Read more...

>  Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center is working with CDW Corp. to build out 370 mobile carts with the capacity to run applications, including EMRs, CPOE and other clinical apps from Read more...

Medication errors could be dramatically cut by using e-prescribing systems, Health Services Research says in a newly published report. Authors analyzed 12 other studies published between Read more...

Despite a great deal of happy talk by regulators, legislators and vendors, doctors are still not that enthusiastic about e-prescribing. According to one study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, most doctors who switch to e-prescribing wouldn't go back to paper prescribing. But getting there is difficult, observers say. Rolling out e-prescribing technology is still costly and difficult. To date, few if any e-prescribing applications have proven simple to install, researchers …

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After months of discussion, it looks like Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) is planning to move ahead with a bill promoting the use of PHRs. As anticipated, the bill would offer incentives of as much as $3 per patient to providers that play ball. The payments would come from an incentive fund drawing on dollars from the Medicare trust as well as health plans, drug and device manufacturers. Kennedy's PHR would work based on Web technology, rather than requiring doctors or hospitals to invest in …

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