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The Military Health System will redesign its IT infrastructure and beef up its electronic health records to become more comprehensive and longitudinal, according to a newly released strategic plan. Read more...

After struggling for years to bring their clinical databases together, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs department have decided to move their EMR systems over to a service-oriented Read more...

Working with Siemens Medical Solutions, Boston-based Partners HealthCare has decided to make a substantial investment in service-oriented architecture. Over the next 12 months, the health system will work its medication, problem and eventing services into the new architecture, using the Siemens Soarian SOA platform. This despite the fact that CIO John Glaser considers SOA to be "over-hyped and still immature." "I believe that SOA...is a very profound shift in the way that we think about …

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, like virtually all of its peers, was eager to create an interoperable infrastructure linking up all patient care information. The project was huge. UPMC is an integrated health system with 19 hospitals, almost 5,000 physicians and nearly 400 outpatient sites. These various sites were supported by a patchwork of EMRs and other clinical systems, which, though best of breed, didn't communicate with each other. At first, the health system build more …

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Last week IBM announced its technology approach for managing the pending Nationwide Health Information Network, which will offer physicians, patients, hospitals, labs and pharmacies to share data from any location. IBM announced that it was developing a service oriented architecture to connect data locations, built on an interoperability standard published by the Health Information Technology Standards Panel. The IBM effort is also drawing on the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise …

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