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Implementing an electronic health record system provides a good return on investment for hospitals in low-income areas, according to a case study recently published in the  Journal of the American Medical Information Association.

Health information exchanges need to understand the optimal catchment area of their providers' patients in order to be successful and better serve their participating providers, according to a new study published in the  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association .

Researchers in The Netherlands are claiming success with a computer system that applies natural language processing to biomedical text to link relevant concepts to sources that contain further information, a process needed to help computers extract useful information from free text.

Meeting the computerized provider order entry requirement is the biggest challenge to hospitals participating in the Meaningful Use incentive program, according to a study published in the  Journal of the American Informatics Association .

The clinical informatics community must be involved in a redesign of electronic health record systems to encourage data-sharing between healthcare research and clinical practices, writes Keith Marsolo of the biomedical informatics division of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in an article published this week in the  Journal of the American Informatics Association .

  A hybrid computer program developed to de-identify patient information will allow faster, more collaborative clinical research than current out-of-the-box de-identification programs, according to new study published this week in the  Journal of the Medical Informatics Association .