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NC hospital, medical practices begin shift to IT

Novant Health Inc. and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said that despite the influx of $19 billion in health IT stimulus funds, they already have been converting their paper records to

Will HIT stimulus work? Readers are pessimistic

Last week, I presented the views of Dr. Donald Simborg on how the health IT stimulus would effect the industry. In his note , Dr. Simborg lays out two alternate futures for health IT stimulus funding.

Wal-Mart will market electronic medical records system

You know something's a commodity when the big W gets involved--so I guess EMRs have officially arrived. Wal-Mart Stores has set its sights on the scorching-hot market for electronic health records,

A reader's take on the health IT stimulus

Folks, I thought I'd largely turn my "podium" over to a reader today, with some thoughts on the health IT stimulus plan which should be law by the time you read this. In this excerpt, he explains why