RFID news from FierceHealthIT

> Another malpractice insurer has begun offering premium credits to physicians who use EMRs, saying that Read more...

> The Army is asking for input on how to roll out on how the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs can build a shared EMR system for inpatient care. Read more...

> Google has announced that it will launch its Google Health initiative in early 2008. Article > Read more...

> Presidential candidates are increasingly accepting that health IT use will be necessary to make health reform proposals work. Read more...

Of course, the operating room is increasingly becoming automated. But according to some observers, we're just at the tip of the iceberg. Soon, say Dr. Charles Shanley and David Ellis, ORs will move Read more...

To date, most of the attention given to RFID implants has focused on blood glucose monitoring. Now, a non-profit serving dialysis patients is looking at ways to use implants as well. Working with Read more...

Drug counterfeiting isn't just a major business problem--it's a potentially fatal hole in care Read more...

A new study is predicting that the use of RFID technologies in healthcare isn't just going to grow over the next four years, it's going to explode. The report, by market research firm Kalorama Read more...

>  Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center is working with CDW Corp. to build out 370 mobile carts with the capacity to run applications, including EMRs, CPOE and other clinical apps from Read more...

A report from the American Medical Association has taken a fairly ambivalent stance toward the use of implanted RFID technology to track patients.

On the one hand, the report notes, the technology could make it easier to identify patients--which would speed access to their medical data--and would also improve coordination of care and make medical processes more efficient. On the other hand, AMA authors worried the implanted devices might migrate under the skin, potentially causing …

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