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States consider health information exchanges and RHIOs (pick your acronym) to be their top e-health priorities, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. When surveyed in 2007, 25 of 41 of states Read more...

A new study suggests that healthcare CIOs and software marketing executives are even father apart in their understanding of one another than you might think. The study, which surveyed 100 IT Read more...

Establishing health information exchanges sounds good on paper, but in practice, it's hard to come up with a solid financial justification for keeping them going. So how do you keep a health information exchange alive? Among the key steps to take is to do a good job of determining what each stakeholder will want from the project--both financially and operationally--according to a Foundation for eHealth Initiative report released last week.

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Wider adoption of EMRs would significantly improve U.S. quality of care, but small-group and solo-practice physicians will need help if they're going to get on board, according Congressional testimony by the president of the American College of Physicians. Right now, bringing an EMR on board costs $44,000 per physician, and generates an average ongoing $8,500 per year in annual costs, ACP president Lynne Kirk, MD told the house Subcommittee on Regulations, Healthcare and Trade of the …

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Well, it looks like the stick of bad PR, regulatory enforcement and legal action has more clout than the business case carrot for most healthcare companies when it comes to their relatively tepid investments in e-security, says a new survey by the Global State of Information Security. Spending to protect electronic health records (EHRs) and other sensitive e-data …

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