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You know, sometimes an answer is right in front of us. The American College of Physicians is handing you the cheat Read more...

> Kaiser Permanente is laying off roughly 100 people in its 5,600-member IT department response to unspecified "changing technology needs." Read more...

A couple of issues ago, I wrote about the increasing demands being placed on the CIO role in healthcare Read more...

From my comfy ringside chair, e-prescribing sounds like the most logical thing in the world. Not only does it spare pharmacists from having to read indecipherable physician scrawls, the technology Read more...

I began to understand the EMR adoption problem one day when I needed to make a "to-do" list. In the past, I've made such lists on my PC, creating another e-document along with the dozens that litter its desktop. If I …

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Using a rather elastic definition of "e-health," German researchers say they have demonstrated conclusively that well-managed electronic healthcare projects offer a two to one payback on funds invested. At the same time, however, they warn that the big returns they're projecting may not come for as many as five years. The eHealth Impact Project developed a method for weighing the economic benefit of e-health projects, defining them--very loosely--as any technology impacting health …

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