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Despite benefits, telemedicine barriers remain high

March 10, 2008 — 7:59am ET
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 releases no-cost UI toolkit for healthcare apps

September 17, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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...

Study: RHIOs/HIEs backed by states will win

August 27, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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...

SPOTLIGHT: What providers can learn from Facebook

August 27, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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...

Massachusetts e-prescribing volume hits 10.8 million scripts

August 6, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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...

ALSO NOTED: Rush develops cart-based EMR access; Mass. hospitals use bar-code bracelets; and much more...

July 30, 2007 — 6:59am ET
>  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...

Study: E-prescribing cuts med errors 66%

July 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET
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...

E-prescribing apps still dogged by problems

May 28, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

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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Kennedy to file PHR legislation

March 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

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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