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Government's power to accelerate HIE formation is limited

Health information exchange must overcome several barriers before it becomes widespread, say health IT experts Julie Adler-Milstein and Ashish Jha in a new commentary published last week in the

Regional information exchanges in peril? Think again

A new Harvard study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine questions whether regional health information organizations (RHIOs) will ever be able to function on their own. What's interesting

Health IT still far from its potential

A couple of weeks ago, we referenced both the 1991 Institute of Medicine report, "The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care" and President George W. Bush's 2004 call

Very few hospitals boast comprehensive EHR systems

According to a report released by the New England Journal of Medicine, just 1.5 percent of nonfederal hospitals in the United States. use what was referred to as a "comprehensive" electronic health