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'Top 100 hospitals' ahead of peers in health IT
A new report from HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS), shows that the top 100 hospitals in Reuters' annual survey for 2009 and 2010
Study: E-prescribing significantly cuts hospital error rates
Medication error rates fell substantially in two Australian hospitals after they introduced commercial electronic prescribing systems, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine. Although the
Reports suggest that Merck downplayed Vioxx risks
Another day, another report suggesting that a pharmaceutical company tried to bury data impugning the safety of one of its products. This time, a study has been published in The Journal of the
