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ALSO NOTED: NPI transition could prove quite costly; NH gov wants HIT upgrade plans; and much more...

April 28, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> Experts say the coming requirement that providers use National Provider Identifier numbers when billing the government payers could prove very expensive, as the process is still riddled with... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Just ask Dr. Wiki

April 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET


A group of Cleveland Clinic physicians have launched a new Wikipedia-style site they've dubbed "Ask Dr. Wiki."  Unlike the original model, Ask Dr. Wiki includes not only text--such as clinical notes--but also multimedia content such as images, EKGs and angiograms. While the public can access the site, it's aimed at medical professionals, who are credentialed before they can post content. However, critics complain that since the founders are primarily cardiology experts, bogus …

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MA city first to adopt universal shared EMR

February 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

It appears that a tiny hamlet in northwest Massachusetts will be the first in the U.S. to offer a health information network covering an entire city. North Adams, MA, which has about 14,000 residents, should implement its EMR system next month. Officials are optimistic that sharing data will have a strongly positive effect in time, though over the short term, problems are already cropping up. Perhaps the most challenging problem for medical professionals has been that doctors' …

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Let's hear it for healthcare IT in Arizona

August 27, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Healthcare IT gets a big round of applause from hospitals and other medical professionals in Arizona, where healthcare IT is touted as having the potential to play a big role in curbing rising health care costs, say professors in the School of Health Management and Policy in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Drilling down a bit, the article in the East Valley Tribune looks at a local healthcare provider, Banner Health, that's in the process of …

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