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IBM using nanotech to read DNA, personalize medicine
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IBM announced that it is working to ease the process of sequencing genetic code -- a development that could lead to dramatic improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Aprima adopts IMO database to help physicians choose the right codeEmail this article to a colleague.
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The right code can mean the difference between a properly paid medical bill and a bad-debt-inducing nightmare.
With that in mind, Aprima Medical Systems has announced a partnership with Intelligent Medical Objects to give its physician practice customers access to IMO’s broad range of coding and terminology solutions, including IMO Problem IT and IMO Procedure IT.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Aprima Medical Systems Dallas Intelligent Medical Objects Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Vendors Source Type: news
Ballmer bullish about Windows 7Email this article to a colleague.
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer says the firm's new operating system will provide companies and public sector bodies with a more resilient, secure and cost effective IT infrastructure.
Source: E-Health Europe News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CDC grant creates Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health InformaticsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $4.8 million grant to researchers at Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute to create the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers in the nation.
The other centers are located at the University of Utah, the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Massachusetts.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Indiana Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS Industry News Shaun Grannis Source Type: news
The ICEMAN cometh, and it's plug-and-playEmail this article to a colleague.
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LiveData, Inc., a real-time data integration technology company, has been awarded a $730,000 grant from the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center to pursue standardization of information integration technologies.
LiveData will use the money to develop an integrated clinical environment with the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology's Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) team.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only API Cambridge Center CIMIT Industry News LiveData Inc. Massachusetts Massachusetts General Hospital plug and play telemedicine United States Army Vendors Source Type: news
GE's new monitor links hospital IT systems, imagesEmail this article to a colleague.
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GE Healthcare has released the Carescape Monitor B850, which links hospital networks, EMRs, diagnostic images, lab results and third-party devices with patient monitoring data.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Recession drives trend to automated calls in healthcareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Automated calls to members and patients are becoming more prevalent in the healthcare industry, according to a healthcare IT executive.
While the recession has accelerated the trend, the notion that technology can reach out to people across multiple channels is gaining acceptance, said Alexandra Drane, founder and president of the Eliza Corp.
Case studies documenting the success of automated communication have also built momentum and helped the market grow, she said.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Patty Enrado Tags: Online Only Alexandra Drane Beverly Eliza Corporation Industry News Source Type: news
Health IT effort to create thousands of new jobs, says BlumenthalEmail this article to a colleague.
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At least 50,000 new health information management jobs will be needed as the nation moves from a paper to a digital healthcare system, the nation's healthcare IT chief said Tuesday.
David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology, spoke about the government's plans for transforming healthcare into an industry of "meaningful users" of healthcare IT at the 81st annual American Health Information Management Association convention in Grapevine, Texas,
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only AHIMA David Blumenthal GRAPEVINE Industry News Linda Kloss Texas Source Type: news
New hope for HealthSpaceEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Connecting for Health is hoping to be given the green light to develop new functionality for HealthSpace, according to the personal health portal's clinical director.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
EU criticised over online medicinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The EU executive's decision not to legislate against online pharmacies is a major omission in its plans to fight counterfeit medicines, the politicians responsible for pushing a new law through the European Parliament have said.
Source: E-Health Europe News - October 7, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
McKesson Corporation Fiscal 2010 Second Quarter Conference Call Scheduled For October 27, 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: McKesson News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
"eHealth Week 2010" Brings eHealth Convergence to the ForefrontEmail this article to a colleague.
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15-18 March 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
For the first time, the ministerial event known as the "High Level eHealth Conference" and the "World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition" will take place in the same week in a joint initiative called "eHealth Week 2010", the most prestigious event in the European eHealth sector of the year.
Source: eHealth News EU - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info
Surescripts: 23% more physicians e-prescribing in 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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U.S. e-prescribing network Surescripts has reported that more than 140,000 (23 percent) of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States are now e-prescribing.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Surescripts: 23% more providers e-prescribing in 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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U.S. e-prescribing network Surescripts has reported that more than 140,000 (23 percent) of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States are now e-prescribing.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Surescripts: 23% of providers e-prescribing in 2009Email this article to a colleague.
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U.S. e-prescribing network Surescripts has reported that more than 140,000 (23 percent) of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States are now e-prescribing.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
ACS to implement EHRs, HIEs for WyomingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) has earned a $4 million, three-year contract this week to provide a Web-based EHR and a health information exchange (HIE) for the Wyoming Department of Health.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Health Information Technology Resource Teach InEmail this article to a colleague.
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HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE TEACH IN: Building skills and providing tools to access available health information technology resources and opportunities targeted towards underserved and communities of color
Co-sponsors: The Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, The California Endowment, Morehouse School of Medicine, National HIT Collaborative, Out of Many One, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Source: Healthcare IT News Events - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: 1068601 Tags: Atlanta Barack Obama California Georgia information technology Morehouse School of Medicine Research and Education Inc. Source Type: events
athenahealth buys SaaS provider for $22.3MEmail this article to a colleague.
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Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, a provider of Internet-based business services for physician practices, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anodyne Health Partners, a provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business applications for healthcare providers.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Philips helps improve efficiency and workflow for complex interventional proceduresEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today, Philips launched a new upgrade program for its Allura Xper family of Cardio/Vascular X-ray devices
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
IBM Looks to Make DNA Analysis Cheap and EasyEmail this article to a colleague.
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IBM scientists are developing a technology that will enable physicians and other researchers to quickly and easily read and analyze strands of DNA, an advancement that could lead to greater personalized health care. The scientists are looking to create a DNA transistor in which a DNA molecule is threaded through a 3-nm nanopore and the genetic information is analyzed. The key challenge is finding a way to control the speed in which the DNA runs through the nanopore. Health care providers armed with an individuals genetic information can more easily determine diseases to which the patient is predisposed, and which t...
Source: eWeek Health Care - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Fremont Memorial Hospital deploys digital signage from Black BoxEmail this article to a colleague.
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Black Box Corporation, a provider of voice communications, data infrastructure, and product solutions, announces that Fremont Memorial Hospital in Fremont, Ohio has deployed Black Box’s iCOMPEL digital signage system as a cost-effective communications platform for welcoming visitors and for promoting healthcare services in its facility.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Black Box Corporation Fremont Fremont Memorial Hospital George Borden Hank Preston Industry News Ohio PITTSBURGH Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
NHS24 absorbs Scottish telehealth bodyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Scottish Centre for Telehealth will become part of NHS24, the special health board that runs Scotland's national health helpline and website, from 1 April 2010.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
nCircle, HITRUST launch new security scanning serviceEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new healthcare auditing program is designed to help smaller physician practices ensure that their electronic healthcare records are safe and secure.
Developed by San Francisco-based nCircle and the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), the HITRUST Security and Configuration Auditing Service is designed to scan a provider’s IT systems for known vulnerabilities, identifying the highest risks in the network, and provide guidance on how to bring the systems up to date.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Abe Kleinfeld San Francisco Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Vendors Source Type: news
Analysis of EEG Signals Under Flash Stimulation for Migraine and Epileptic PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In this study as a method of flash stimuli at frequencies of 2, 4 and 6 Hz were applied to different migraine and epileptic
patients under pain-free phase with the EEG recorded from 18 scalp electrodes, referred to the linked earlobes. We used AR
parametric method to analyze and characterize EEG signals in migraine and epileptic patients. The variations in the EEG power
spectra shapes were examined in order to obtain medical information. These power spectra were then used to compare the applied
method in terms of their frequency resolution and the effects in determination of migraine and epilepsy. Global performan...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Journal of Medical Systems Source Type: journals
athenahealth adds BI services with Anodyne acquisitionEmail this article to a colleague.
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athenahealth is investing in analytics.
Long known for supplying business IT services for physician practices, the Watertown, Mass.-based company announced Monday the planned acquisition of Anodyne Health Partners, Inc., an Alpharetta, Ga.-based provider of software-as-a-service-based business intelligence solutions. The proposed deal consists of a cash payment of $22.3 million and up to $7.7 million in additional considerations.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Alpharetta Anodyne Health Partners Inc. business intelligence Georgia Massachusetts software Watertown Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Vendors Source Type: news
Leavitt: 'This is our moon shot'Email this article to a colleague.
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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is set to launch its 2011 certification program, designed to help hospitals and physician practices show the meaningful use of IT that is required to qualify for federal incentives.
"We're moving forward, skating toward the puck rather than waiting for it to move," CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt, MD, told an audience of healthcare information management professionals Monday at the annual American Health Information Management Association convention in Grapevine, Texas.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only CCHIT GRAPEVINE Industry News information technology Mark Leavitt Texas Source Type: news
AHIMA charts course for protecting patient dataEmail this article to a colleague.
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With security and privacy of patient information paramount as the government and healthcare industry work to transform the system, the American Health Information Management Association is calling for national standards to protect patient information.
AHIMA's leaders on Monday released a Health Information Bill of Rights, a seven-point list they say is a model for protecting patient data. The document, unveiled at the 53,000-member group's 81st annual convention in Grapevine, Texas, was crafted by a blue ribbon panel and approved by the AHIMA board of directors.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only AHIMA GRAPEVINE Industry News Linda Kloss Vera Rulon Wendy Mangin Source Type: news
McKesson debuts patient record appEmail this article to a colleague.
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McKesson has unveiled a new health information management tool, the Horizon Patient Folder Release of Information, at the 2009 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) convention this week in Grapevine, Texas.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Study: EHRs improve quality of careEmail this article to a colleague.
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Routine use of EHRs may improve the quality of care provided in community-based primary care practices more than other common strategies intended to raise the quality of medical care, according to study findings published Oct. 6 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Dutch health system tops Euro surveyEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Netherlands has the best healthcare system in Europe, according to the annual Euro Health Consumer Index.
Source: E-Health Europe News - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Bury outlines scope of Lorenzo R1.9Email this article to a colleague.
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NHS Bury's implementation of Lorenzo will change the working practices of 600 of its 800 staff, across 31 community services.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
EIBIR Winter School on Interdisciplinary Biomedical ImagingEmail this article to a colleague.
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17-22 January 2010, Viladrau, Spain.
The main objective of the EIBIR Winter School is to support the interdisciplinary training of technical and clinical PhD students working in the broad area of biomedical imaging. In this first EIBIR Winter School on Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging, two key clinical disease areas will be addressed which altogether represent the two leading causes of death worldwide: cardiovascular and oncologic diseases.
Source: eHealth News EU - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info
Award recognises 'outstanding' delivery on green ICTEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Connecting for Health has been honoured for its progress in delivering green IT initiatives, at the Green ICT 'A year on and A year ahead' awards.
Source: NHS Connecting for Health - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: siro Source Type: organizations
Places available for 5th Annual Clinicians' ConferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Places can still be booked for NHS Connecting for Health's 5th Annual Clinicians' Conference, being held at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre on Thursday 5 November 2009.
Source: NHS Connecting for Health - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: siro Source Type: organizations
Ohio initiative to test multi-payer Web portalEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new initiative launched in Ohio plans to improve the flow of information between health plans and physicians’ offices using a multi-payer Web portal.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill Tags: Online Only America Columbus Karen Ignagni Ohio Payers Source Type: news
Report: More data hurdles to overcome before wider EHR adoptionEmail this article to a colleague.
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A defined framework for secondary data will need to be developed in order for more organizations to deploy health IT systems, according to a survey conducted between May and June and published by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Healthcare IT InstituteEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Events - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: 1068601 Source Type: events
Lansley outlines Tory NHS plansEmail this article to a colleague.
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Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative Party conference.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Baptist Healthcare System First to Go-live with Full McKesson Enterprise Revenue 10-05-2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Groundbreaking system to help Baptist streamline billing cycle
Source: McKesson News - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
Special Issue Call for Papers: Supporting Collaboration in Healthcare SettingsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: journals
Special Issue Call for Papers: IS/IT Applications for the Support of Older PeopleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: journals
Nuance extends network scanning business with eCopy takeoverEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nuance Communications has acquired eCopy, a provider of solutions that integrates paper documents into business software applications, for approximately $54 million in Nuance common stock.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
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Last month, E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk decided to run a poll on the future of electronic health records in England. The aim was to test support for the Conservative Party's plans for a shake-up of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and its reported interest in letting patients store records with Microsoft and Google.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Survey gives boost to HealthSpaceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Doctors, IT managers and suppliers have given strong support to the NHS' personal health record platform, HealthSpace, in a poll organised by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Elekta Impac Software Selected to Present at Electronic Health Records SymposiumEmail this article to a colleague.
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Elekta Impac Software has been selected to demonstrate at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Symposium: Harnessing the EHR, From Incentives to Sustainability, October 6-7, in San Francisco, California. Open to the entire cancer care team, including oncologists, administrators and nurses, the forum will arm health care providers with the knowledge to successfully select and implement an oncology-specific EHR in their practice.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: American Society California Elekta Impac Software San Francisco Vendors Source Type: news
BronxRHIO pushes HIE with new agreementEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Bronx Regional Health Information Organization has entered into a partnership to improve health information exchange between providers in New York.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Axolotl Inc. BronxRHIO Don Ashkenase Kyle Hardy Montefiore Medical Center New York City Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Vendors Source Type: news
GE unveils new CARESCAPE 850 monitorEmail this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare providers can have all the clinical information they need about a patient, and it won’t mean a thing if that data isn’t organized and displayed properly.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only David Ataide WAUKESHA Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
BronxRHIO taps Axolotl for EMREmail this article to a colleague.
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The New York City-based Bronx Regional Health Information Organization (BronxRHIO) has signed a contract for Axolotl's Elysium Exchange suite.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
More than 140,000 physicians on growing list of e-prescribersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The number of physicians using electronic prescribing will have more than doubled in 2009, executives of the e-prescribing network Surescripts said.
More than 140,000 – 23 percent of all office-based physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the United States – are e-prescribing today, officials said. And at the current pace, Surescripts projects that its active e-prescribers in 2009 will more than double the 74,000 that were e-prescribing at the end of 2008.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only ALEXANDRIA e-prescribers e-prescribing e-prescriptions Harry Totonis Industry News SureScripts United States Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
