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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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Two healthcare organizations are taking a public beating over info security breaches that exposed patient data--and one of them may be on the hook for huge legal penalties. The Akron Children's Hospital publicly admitted last week that an intruder had gained access to patient and charitable donor information. Around Labor Day, the hospital learned that German intruders had accessed information concerning about 200,000 patients. The data included Social Security numbers, bank account …

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