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NewsHealth 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 Read more...
Blumenthal, Berwick call meaningful use a 'starting point' for a better health system
Two government officials who have been at the forefront of health IT implementation and quality improvement for years call last month's publication of the standards for "meaningful use" of EHRs a Read more...
IT resistance by high-volume Medicaid providers could increase care disparities, HIT Policy Committee told
IT is supposed to help lessen healthcare disparities, but if Medicaid-dependent clinics don't adopt EMRs and other health IT, disparities between rich and poor could widen, one advocacy organization Read more...
Accenture report: Healthcare embracing cloud computing at same high rates as other sectors
About 32 percent of healthcare organizations already use some form of cloud computing, and 73 percent report that they plan to move more applications to the cloud, according to a study from Read more...
Report: Global HIS spending to hit $18B in 2016
The worldwide market for hospital information systems will grow by a compound annual rate of 13 percent for the next six years, reaching $18 billion in 2016, up from $7.8 billion in 2009, research Read more...
After Perot acquisition, Dell is a major player in health IT
Lots of companies that could be considered novices in the area of health IT are flooding into the field, seeking riches from a fast-growing industry--not to mention chasing all the billions of Read more...
U.S. continues to trail other countries in physician IT adoption
The Commonwealth Fund's annual survey of international health policy is out, and, to nobody's surprise, primary-care physicians in the U.S. and Canada continue to trail their counterparts in Europe Read more...
Report: U.S. could learn health IT lessons from Europe
While the U.S. scrambles to meet the goal of two consecutive administrations delivering a national, interoperable web of electronic health records networks by 2014, other countries have achieved far Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Indiana brags about HIT accomplishments
The state of Indiana has launched a new effort promoting its ventures into health IT. Officials say that their state boasts one of the strongest health IT infrastructures in the U.S, including five Read more...
Bill would help small practices adopt healthcare IT
Everyone knows that small practices are most likely to struggle with health IT implementations. Apparently, at least some legislators are aware of this, with one introducing a bill last week that Read more...
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