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NewsCloud-based service streamlines quicker image sharing for hospital
Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., has begun using a cloud-based service to share medical images among multiple physicians without entering them into the healthcare system's picture Read more...
Hospitals depend on pharmacy inventory management apps to cut costs
Hospitals increasingly are using pharmacy inventory management software to reduce inventory costs, but many are unsatisfied with the available applications, according to a new report from the KLAS Read more...
TriZetto's payer software signals the arrival of payment bundling
Bundled payments are coming. One of the clearest signs is TriZetto's launch of an automated bundling solution for health plans, employer consortia, and third party administrators. What this means is Read more...
HIMSS: Poor data access impedes hospital quality efforts
Three-fourths of respondents to a new HIMSS survey on clinical transformation--most of them executives of hospitals or healthcare systems--said that their organization has created or is establishing Read more...
How far has Google Health really fallen?
John Moore of Chilmark Research, a respected health IT industry blogger, suggested this week that Google Health is "cryogenically" frozen in place after the disbanding of most of its development Read more...
Statewide health data exchange going live in Maine
The state of Maine will soon go line with a statewide health records network connecting 15 hospitals, three clinics and the state's Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This puts the state Read more...
Is VistA a viable replacement for paper records?
How is it possible that only 1.5 percent of hospitals in the United States have gone paperless? Furthermore, how is it possible that West Virginia--which is not exactly a financial or technological Read more...
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