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Mercy Memorial Hospital deploys IT to improve patient care
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Mercy Memorial Hospital, a Monroe, Mich.-based not-for profit community care provider, has rolled out a new server virtualization and disaster recovery solution.
In collaboration with CDW Healthcare, a Vernon Hills, Ill.-0based provider of IT solutions for the healthcare market, Mercy Memorial officials said the new initiative is part of a push to streamline network management processes and increase the reliability of clinical applications.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Kyle Hardy Memorial Hospital Mercy Memorial Hospital Michigan Monroe Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Michigan hospital rolls out wireless technologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Memorial Medical Center, an 87-bed community hospital in western Michigan, has rolled out end-to-end wireless technology.
The hospital implemented 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology from Motorola's enterprise mobility solutions business. Motorola teamed with systems integrator Lowry Computers for the implementation.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only mobile technology LUDINGTON Michigan Motorola Wireless LAN WLAN WLAN technology Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
IBM Italy launches telemedicine projectEmail this article to a colleague.
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IBM is to launch a telemedicine project in Bolzano, Italy, designed to improve elderly patients' independence and quality of life, while reducing health care costs.
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Orion wins Northern Ireland ECR dealEmail this article to a colleague.
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Northern Ireland has named Orion as the winner of a procurement for a proof of concept project for a province-wide electronic care record (ECR).
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Xerox adds to health IT portfolio with $6.4B ACS buyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Xerox has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $6.4 billion.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Orion wins Northern Ireland ECR dealEmail this article to a colleague.
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Northern Ireland has named Orion as the winner of a procurement for a proof of concept project for a province-wide electronic care record (ECR).
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The health information system security threat lifecycle: An informatics theoryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion: The HISSTL emerged from the analysis of study evidence. The theory embodies elements such as the fiscal, regulatory and natural hospital environments which impede P&S implementations in practice settings. These elements conflict with improved patient care outcomes. Efforts by clinicians to avoid conflict and emphasize patient care above P&S tended to manifest as security breaches. These breaches entrench factors beyond clinician control and perpetuate those within clinician control. Security breaches of health information can progress through the HISSTL. Some preliminary suggestions for addressing these issues ...
Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics - September 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Juanita I. Fernando, Linda L. Dawson Tags: Regular Papers Source Type: journals
The City of Bolzano Chooses IBM to Enable New Solutions for CitizensEmail this article to a colleague.
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The City of Bolzano, Italy and TIS Innovation Park have entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM), with the aim of creating a smart city. Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol in northern Italy, is the fifth Italian city to choose IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. During the next few months a pilot project will be implemented for remote health monitoring of the elderly.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
eHealth Day at Conference for Java, Enterprise Architectures & SOAEmail this article to a colleague.
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November 11 2009, Munich, Germany.
InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and Java Magazine present the eHealth Day on November 11, 2009 at the technical conference W-JAX, from Monday, the 9th through Friday the 13th of November, 2009. Experience an attractive mix of tomorrow's technologies and practical knowledge derived from real-world experience in the health care sector.
Source: eHealth News EU - September 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info
CDC awards $4M+ for public health informaticsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced $4.37 million in competitive grants to enhance healthcare information management and to improve the detection of and response to emerging public health threats.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Experiences of Telemedicine-Aided Hypertension Control in the Follow-Up of Finnish Hypertensive PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-6.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-3.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Telehealth for Managing COPDEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-3.
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Telemedicine newsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-6.
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Telemedicine Is Green!!Email this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-2.
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A Comparison of Different Survey Periods in Online Surveys of Persons with Eating Disorders and Their RelativesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-7.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Satisfaction of Direct Telemedicine Providers in Diabetes Case ManagementEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-9.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Traveling an Audiologist to Provide Otolaryngology Care Using Store-and-Forward TelemedicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-6.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
A Web Services–Based Distributed System with Browser–Client Architecture to Promote Tele-audiology AssessmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-6.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
A Study of Medication-Taking and Unobtrusive, Intelligent RemindingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-7.
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Telehealth EthicsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0: 1-7.
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Med students' tweets, posts expose patient infoEmail this article to a colleague.
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Future doctors are too frequently putting inappropriate postings and sometimes confidential patient information on social sites like Facebook and Twitter, according to study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
AIM: EMRs need to better communicate critical imaging resultsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated EMR system, according to a study in the Sept. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 26, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
New association promotes open health ITEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Open Health IT Exchange (OHITX) launched last week with the goal of promoting open health IT and interoperability.
Organizers of the Minnesota-based group said the OHITX will bring together the major players in the healthcare IT ecosystem in an open and collaborative environment to advance healthcare initiatives.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Colleen Sauter Industry News Minneapolis Minnesota Paul Source Type: news
Identifying primary care patients at risk for future...Email this article to a colleague.
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Risk factor clustering in electronic health records can be...
Source: Health Informatics Newsfeed - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
ADVOCATE scores more billing agreementsEmail this article to a colleague.
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ADVOCATE, a provider of radiology billing and practice management services, has been awarded exclusive billing agreements with several radiology practices and imaging providers.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Danish telehealth pilots to go nationalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilot programs it now intends to implement on a nationwide basis over the next three years.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Not-for-profit collaborates to push EHR adoption in VermontEmail this article to a colleague.
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Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that facilitates the use of electronic health records in Vermont, has entered into a partnership to further the adoption and use of electronic healthy records in the state.
The organization is partnerning with Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Allscripts Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Chicago Industry News information technology Jim Douglas Kyle Hardy MONTPELIER Vermont Vern Davenport Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Vendors Source Type: news
InteGreat adds Sun Life to customer ranksEmail this article to a colleague.
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The InteGreat division of the MED3OOO Group entered into an agreement to implement and deploy its Web-based EHR at Sun Life Family Health Center in Casa Grande, Ariz.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Allscripts, VITL form allianceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Vermont Information Technology Leaders (VITL), a non-profit organization facilitating the expanded use of health IT in Vermont, and Chicago-based healthcare IT developer Allscripts intend to enter a strategic alliance.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Golden Living centers to add referral technology at 197 sitesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Golden Living, a post-acute healthcare services company, will implement referral management software to help manage and coordinate patient referrals for 197 of their more than 300 skilled nursing facilities across the nation.
The Golden Living companies provide care and services that serve the elderly and disabled, including companies that operate nursing homes and provide rehabilitation therapy, hospice care, home health services and temporary healthcare staffing services. Golden Living has centers in 21 states and provides healthcare to more than 30,000 patients.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Allscripts Care Management Fort Smith Industry News Vendors Source Type: news
GE nets Indianapolis EMR contractEmail this article to a colleague.
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GE Healthcare is providing its Centricity EMR to the Jane Pauley Community Health Center in Indianapolis.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Healthcare billing companies could benefit from EHR expansionEmail this article to a colleague.
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The federal HITECH Act has created opportunities for third-party healthcare billing companies to expand their businesses – if they act quickly.
This was the message delivered to attendees Thursday at the 2009 national conference of the Healthcare Billing and Management Association by Steven Tolle, vice president of solutions management at Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts.
Tolle said federal stimulus money offered to physician practices to aid EHR adoption would prompt “10,000 EHR purchasing decisions between now and May 2010.”
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Richard Pizzi Tags: Online Only Chicago Las Vegas RECs Steven Tolle Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
Denmark runs telehealth pilotsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilots it now intends to implement nationally over the next three years.
Source: E-Health Europe News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Picture yourself old with the DHEmail this article to a colleague.
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The government is using face-transforming software to encourage the public to have their say on its proposals for a radical reform of the care system.
Source: E-Health-Insider - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New Jersey health system rolls out EHR for emergency departmentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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LibertyHealth, a two-hospital health system in northern New Jersey, has rolled out an electronic health record system for its emergency departments.
LibertyHealth tapped Livingston, N.J.-based EDIMS, LLC, a provider of interoperable emergency department information management systems for hospitals, for the new technology. The hospitals have deployed EDIMS' nursing documentation and charge capture systems to help improve care quality and streamline operations, hospital executives said.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only EDIMS LLC EDS interoperable emergency department information management systems JERSEY CITY Jersey City Medical Center Joe Scott LibertyHealth Livingston New Jersey Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Mayo, Microsoft add Health Manager featuresEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and Microsoft have enhanced Mayo Clinic's Health Manager application with features to help users manage hypertension and high cholesterol.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
HIMSS names Davies Award winnersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) honored its 2009 Davies Award recipients this week in Washington, D.C.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Vendor Notebook - MEDSEEK delivers eHealth ecoSystem to N.C. healthcare companyEmail this article to a colleague.
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MEDSEEK, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of healthcare portal and connectivity solutions, has announced that Rex Healthcare, based in Raleigh, N.C., will implement the company’s comprehensive eHealth ecoSystem virtual community.
Medicity, Inc., based in Salt Lake City, has announced that IASIS Healthcare has gone live with the Medicity Novo Grid connectivity solution in two (Florida and Utah) of its six healthcare regions, comprising 16 healthcare facilities.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Addison Alabama ANN ARBOR Arizona Arkansas Barrington Birmingham Blue Bell Burlington California Chicago Cielo Clinic emergency department information systems Executive Health Resources Florida Georgia H1N1 Source Type: news
Practice Fusion partnering with BioReference LaboratoriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, an electronic health record community for physicians, is partnering with BioReference Laboratories of Elmwood Park, N.J., the third-largest full service laboratory in the United States.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Cardinal Health expands offeringsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Cardinal Health has introduced an expanded suite of consulting, analytics and operations services to help hospital pharmacy directors improve cost containment, workflow and patient safety.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
LibertyHealth adds EDIMS systemEmail this article to a colleague.
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EDIMS, a provider of interoperable emergency department information management systems for hospitals, said that LibertyHealth, a two-hospital health system in northern New Jersey, has launched the firm's nursing documentation and charge capture systems.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 25, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
BIOTECHNICA 2009 Expands its CoverageEmail this article to a colleague.
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6-8 October 2009, Hannover, Germany.
BIOTECHNICA 2009 will be formally opened on 5 October by Lower Saxony's Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr. Philipp Rösler, and Dr. Stefan Marcinowski, a board member at BASF and president of the German Biotech Industry Association (DIB). Also speaking at the opening ceremony will be the American Kary Mullis, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993 and inventor of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction).
Source: eHealth News EU - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info
ReBuilder Medical Technologies, Inc. Announces Name of New York DistributorEmail this article to a colleague.
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ReBuilder Medical Technologies, Inc., a provider of novel electronic treatments for the pain resulting from peripheral neuropathy and arthritis today announced that the name of is newly contracted New York distributor is Med Tech Distributors LLC.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: arthritis CHARLES TOWN Med Tech Distributors LLC New York pain peripheral neuropathy ReBuilder Medical Technologies Inc. Vendors Source Type: news
Survey: 71 percent in UK Satisfied With Government-Run HealthcareEmail this article to a colleague.
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While the U.S. Congress is weighing whether to include a government-run public option in healthcare reform, a Zogby Interactive poll of adults in the United Kingdom found that 71% are satisfied with the National Health Service (NHS), that nation's publicly-funded healthcare system. Also, 60% positively rated the amount of time they usually wait before they get an appointment with a doctor.
The poll included 506 adults in the UK, and had a margin of error of 4.4%, with larger margins for sub-groups.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: Congress International National Health Service United Kingdom UTICA Source Type: news
Two RFID-based Solutions to Enhance Inpatient Medication SafetyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract Owing to the low cost and convenience of identifying an object without physical contact, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
systems provide innovative, promising and efficient applications in many domains. An RFID grouping protocol is a protocol
that allows an off-line verifier to collect and verify the evidence of two or more tags simultaneously present. Recently,
Huang and Ku (J. Med. Syst, 2009) proposed an efficient grouping protocol to enhance medication safety for inpatients based on low-cost tags. However, the
Huang–Ku scheme is not secure; an attacker can easily make up fake grouping re...
Source: Journal of Medical Systems - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Journal of Medical Systems Source Type: journals
Insider View: Jon HoeksmaEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's Christine Connelly's paper anniversary. Jon Hoeksma reflects on her first year.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
MIT creating microchip that could restore visionEmail this article to a colleague.
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MIT researchers say they have developed a prototype of a microchip that could help restore at least some of the vision of blind persons.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
NCQA launches new online tool to reduce health disparitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance has launched a new Web site designed to provide online resources to improve disparities in healthcare.
Source: Healthcare IT News - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Industry News Kyle Hardy L. Gregory Pawlson NCQA Washington Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
Report: No one formula guarantees health IT successEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new report from healthcare market research firm IDC Health Insights, which examines how Norwegian hospitals have adopted digital technologies, concludes there is no single formula for successful health IT implementations.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - September 24, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
