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While Aetna's $500 million acquisition of health information exchange vendor Medicity this week appears to be a direct reaction to UnitedHealth Group's deal for Axolotl earlier this year, the move is Read more...

Even though health information exchange has been around for a while, the market for HIE technology remains crowded, with no real dominant players, a new KLAS Enterprises report shows, suggesting that Read more...

While numerous vendors are touting their software for health information exchange, only a handful of companies to date have had more than a few successes in facilitating the transfer of patient data Read more...

> The New England Telehealth Consortium has announced that it is developing a network which will link 555 clinics, physician offices, hospitals, public health centers and universities in Maine, Read more...

Sometimes, a vendor offers its own prestige boost to an IT project. Such, apparently, is the case in California, where a statewide RHIO initiative has just brought HP on board. The California Read more...

Emerging health information group CalRHIO, which is in the process of building a $300M statewide information network, is moving on to the next stage in its development process and selecting two vendors which will be tasked with doing the build-out. CalRHIO has picked Medicity and Perot Systems after a competitive bidding process which lasted several months. Medicity and Perot Systems are playing a unique role, for a vendor, in that they'll also be asked to help CalRHIO get private seed …

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> So how much downtime did Kaiser's Epic EMR actually experience? To what extent was KP's Citrix infrastructure to blame? Check out this interview with Justen Deal--and some very lively follow-up commentary--to learn more. Blog

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