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NewsAMA interactive tool helps docs identify HIT priorities
The American Medical Association's AMAGINE subsidiary has introduced an interactive online tool to help physicians identify their health IT priorities and see how those compare with their peers' Read more...
Joint venture including AMA subsidiary offers web-based services to doctors
A subsidiary of the American Medical Association is teaming up with Covisint--a technology vendor that has been helping the association develop a physician portal--and my1HIE, a health information Read more...
MA hospital to send first e-Rx for controlled substances
The last great barrier to wide adoption of e-prescribing technology is falling, as Dr. Michael Blackman, CMIO of Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, MA, on Monday will send the first legal Read more...
Maine kicks off 15-hospital HIE demonstration program
Maine has kicked off a statewide 15-hospital health information exchange that will involve more than 2,000 clinicians, or more than one-third of the practicing physicians in the state. The Read more...
NJ Blue plan invests $500K in med history tech for hospitals
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has set aside $500,000 to help some of the hospitals in its network bring up electronic medical history technology. Early registrants for the program Read more...
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