mayo clinic news from FierceHealthIT

> Medicare announced that it was launching a South Carolina-based pilot project encouraging Medicare beneficiaries to use a PHR. Read more...

> The Mayo Clinic has ditched paper invoices completely, substituting a paper-free invoicing system. Article > The Office of the Read more...

Hoping to develop a stronger presence in the healthcare arena, Microsoft has renamed its enterprise healthcare technology products--and has set plans to integrate and upgrade them over the next year Read more...

A chip that's mostly known for powering the Playstation 3 console will soon be put to use in new medical imaging applications. Under a new partnership, IBM is working with the Mayo Clinic to find new Read more...

Microsoft launched a free PHR last week, working in cooperation with a wide variety of partners whose role it will be to help populate the record with useful medical data. The move puts Microsoft Read more...

So, it seems that health plans aren't as stoked about physician IT adoption as you might think (see article, below), ranking it low in importance when setting up pay-for-performance measurements. While I'm sure …

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This week California became one of several states taking a forceful public stand promoting health data exchange. Like several states, California is responding to HHS secretary Michael Leavitt's call for national HIT …

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> Allegheny County, PA is creating an alert system that would notify public health officials about potential disease outbreaks--food-borne illnesses or biological attacks--as soon as they're discovered. Report

> 3M and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to use RFID technology to track patient's endoscopy samples. Report

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