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NewsWired IN hospital system adds express check-in system
Indianapolis, IN-based Community Health Network was already more wired than the majority of health systems out there before its latest announcement. Community Health, a five-hospital system with 70 Read more...
HIT terms becoming more defined
Do you know the difference between an e-medical record and an e-health record? Health IT professionals are banking on an answer of "no," which is why there now is more of a push to give more "precise Read more...
TennCare and Blue plans launch e-prescribing test
Tennessee's Medicaid program and one of its Medicaid managed care providers have announced that they plan to kick off an e-prescribing pilot program in 13 of the state's rural counties. The Bureau Read more...
RHIO/HIE solutions emerge
While RHIOs and HIEs might be having trouble getting their act together, it's not for lack of technology options. In fact, they'll find a pretty rich set of solutions to check out at HiMSS, including Read more...
DoD makes progress in VA EMR integration
When it comes to IT integration projects, this one's clearly a mega-monster. But at long last, it looks like the Department of Defense (DoD) and the VA have finally achieved some interoperability Read more...
Report: Local RHIOs aren't likely to become national
A new report suggests that despite its popularity, the dominant model for developing a national health information network may not be working. The report, from the Information Technology and Read more...
Giant employers move ahead with PHR project
While it was stalled for months by troubles with its original vendor of choice, the massive PHR project backed by the likes of Wal-Mart, AT&T, Sanofi-Aventis and Intel is back underway again. The Read more...
U.S. on track to reach seven-year IT adoption goals
Despite evidence to the contrary, health-IT czar Robert Kolodner insists that the U.S. will still meet the health IT adoption goals set by President Bush. Bush has set a goal of seeing that the Read more...
Bureaucracy holds up military EMR deployment
While commercial EMR vendors say they could develop a joint Web-based health record system within a year for the VA and DoD, it increasingly seems bureaucracy makes that all but impossible. WebMD, Read more...
Federal bill would create HIT 'trusts'
A Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a bill to create a national health information technology network. The model relies on a concept known as a "trust," under Read more...
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