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At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, auditing medication reconciliation is a Joint Commission requirement, and also a pay-for-performance goal. In this article, John Halamka, MD, CIO at BIDMC,... Read more...

The following is your basic vendor-driven study, but the conclusions are still hard to dispute. A new survey backed by patient flow and tracking software vendor StatCom has concluded that 89 percent... Read more...

King's Daughters Medical Center, a 385-bed regional hospital in Ashland, KY, has pulled off a trick many of its peers would envy. The not-for-profit cut its emergency department's length of stay from... Read more...

> Senate lawmakers say they're going to put their own provisions into place designed to encourage Medicare physicians to adopt e-prescribing. Read more...

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has begun inviting electronic medical record vendors to apply for participation in the pilot test for its EMR certification... Read more...

> Looks like there's a revolt brewing. According to one report, almost two-thirds of British family physicians will boycott the government's 50-million-patient EMR database. Read more...

So you think you're facing interoperability headaches? Try this project on for size. According to reps from the U.S. Department of Defense and the VA, the two have been struggling to share complete... Read more...

> UnitedHealthCare has kicked off a pilot offering Florida doctors access to real-time claim adjustments. Article

> Another medical community makes progress in implementing EMRs: Here's a discussion of how Iowa City hospitals are making it happen. Article

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How smoothly does your emergency department move patients from entry to in-patient bed? Not smoothly enough, if a recent vendor survey is any indication. While the problem isn't discussed in the trade media and blogosphere as much as other …

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> University Hospitals in Ohio is rolling out a $2.5 million upgrade to its electronic records system that offers some features, including a hyperlink that, with the click of a mouse, will educate patients about their maladies. The new portal, a password-protected Web site launched in conjunction with First Consulting Group, will connect more than 7,000 clinicians affiliated with the region's second-largest health system. …

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