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Poll: Providers will use IT to offset Medicare cuts
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As the country moves toward healthcare reform and defining "meaningful use" of information technology, a new poll shows providers plan to make better use of IT in everyday practices.
"More than 30 percent of those we surveyed indicated they would make better use of technology to help offset the impact of proposed Medicare payment cuts on their business," said Clare DeNicola, CEO of IVANS, a firm that advises providers on Medicare issues.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Clare DeNicola Industry News IVANS Inc. Medicare Stamford Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
CCHIT chief Mark Leavitt to retire
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Mark Leavitt, MD, announced on Friday he would retire from his role as chairman of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology on March 31.
According to the board of trustees, a national search for Leavitt's successor has been launched.
"The board accepts Mark's decision with reluctance but appreciates his commitment to overseeing a seamless transition," said H. Stephen Lieber, chairman of the board of trustees and president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill,Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only American Health Information Management Association Glenn Laffel H. Stephen Lieber Industry News information technology Mark Leavitt Twitter Washington Source Type: news
athenahealth's rules engine scores a patent
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athenahealth, which provides Internet-based business services to physician practices, has received a patent for its practice management and billing system.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent on Nov. 10 for the Watertown, Mass.-based comnpany's athenaNet rules engine, which is part of the company's athenaCollector revenue cycle management service.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Jonathan Bush Massachusetts Watertown Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Vendors Source Type: news
Data collection center to start measuring payers' efficiency
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A national data collection center has been launched to monitor business efficiency in healthcare by tracking electronic adoption and resulting cost savings.
Officials say primary data collection will begin with healthcare payers, but will later be opened up to providers and clearinghouses to provide a complete view of the industry.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill Tags: Online Only Industry News Nashville U.S. healthcare Payers Vendors Source Type: news
Vendor Notebook - eClinicalWorks delivers EMR to physicians network
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eClinicalWorks, based in Westborough, Mass., has announced that the Catholic Independent Practice Association of Buffalo, N.Y., has selected the company’s electronic medical record and practice management software for the Catholic Health System’s network of ambulatory care offices as well as select community physicians. The company will also work with the IPA to connect into HEALTHeLINK, the local regional health information organization.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Wicklund Tags: Online Only Alcatel-Lucent ANN ARBOR Atlanta AUCKLAND Bayfront Medical Center British Columbia BUFFALO Calgary California Canada CLINICARE Corporation Crittenton Hospital Medical Center electronic medical records software Hartf Source Type: news
UK hospital first of kind with ePrescribing solution
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, a London-based pediatric care NHS Trust, is the first hospital of its kind to implement enterprise-wide electronic prescribing and medicines administration IT supplied by vendor JAC.
All inpatient wards at the trust outside of intensive care are currently running the live EPMA solution.
Improvements to patient safety and a reduction in incidence and severity of drug-related errors prompted the initiative to install the e-prescirbing solution
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Chip Means Tags: Online Only International Source Type: news
McKesson Disease Management Programs, Health Call Centers Accredited by URAC
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Source: McKesson News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
Nuance announces SpeechMagic 7 and SpeechMagic Solution Builder 2.0
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Nuance Communications introduces version 7 of its speech recognition platform SpeechMagic and version 2.0 of SpeechMagic Solution Builder
Source: Hospital IT Europe - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
SRC and DICT8 deliver enhanced digital dictation and outsource transcription offering
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SRC and DICT8 announce availability of an enhanced digital dictation and outsourced transcription service offering.
Source: Hospital IT Europe - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Health Care Companies Not Ready for HITECH Act
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A new survey reveals most health care organizations are not properly prepared to deal with pending privacy and security compliance regulations required under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. - More than 90 percent of health care companies are not ready to
comply with the privacy and security provision of the Health
Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute and
sponsored by Crowe Horwath.
A part of the Recove...
Source: eWeek Health Care - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Update: H1N1 drives demand for secure remote access
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Vendors of remote access technologies are reporting an unexpected increase in demand for their products over the past several months as a result of companies' H1N1-related concerns.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
£4.9 Million To Develop Metamaterials For 'Invisibility Cloaks' And 'Perfect Lenses'
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Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a £4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust. Metamaterials can be used for invisibility 'cloaking' devices, sensitive security sensors that can detect tiny quantities of dangerous substances, and flat lenses that can be used to image tiny objects much smaller than the wavelength of light.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
New Book Thinking In Circles About Obesity Presents A Novel Approach To Addressing The Weight Crisis
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Low-carb…low-fat…high-protein…high-fiber…Americans are food-savvy, label-conscious, calorie-aware - and still gaining weight in spite of all their good intentions. Worse still, today's children run the risk of a shorter life expectancy than their parents. Thinking in Circles About Obesity by Tarek Hamid brings a healthy portion of critical thinking, spiced with humor and lively graphics, to the obesity debate.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news
Businesses At Risk From Health Reform, Or Status Quo, Depending On Source
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Employment Policies Institute and other friends of business have joined to launch a national television ad campaign, beginning Thursday, that will warn against the health care overhaul, The Boston Globe reports.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Source Type: news
Pocket Nanotech Via IPhone And IPod Touch
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The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, the emerging technology of using materials by engineering them at an incredibly small scale, has applications ranging from consumer electronics to improved drug delivery systems.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Sweden and GTC build e-health framework
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The Global Trust Council (GTC) is in negotiations with the Swedish government to create an internationally recognised e-health framework.
Source: E-Health Europe News - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
ICO could fine trusts up to £500k
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The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation into whether the Information Commissioner's Office should be able to penalise organisations that make serious data breaches with fines of up to £500,000.
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Demographics, health risks drive geographic healthcare spending variance
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As U.S. healthcare costs inflate, factors such as insurance status, demographics and increased patient health risk must be investigated when defining ways to realign healthcare spending, according to a report released by the American Hospital Association this week.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
CfH to crack down on C&B 'misuse'
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NHS Connecting for Heath is hoping to crack down on the misuse of Choose and Book through new guidance that will be published in the next few weeks.
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Informa Rebrands Good Clinical Practice Journal
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Informa Healthcare announced that it is relaunching its Good Clinical Practice journal as Scrip Clinical Research, with a focus on more commercially-minded insights in the field of clinical research outsourcing.
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Nuance announces SpeechMagic 7 and SpeechMagic Solution Builder 2.0
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Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, introduces version 7 of its speech recognition platform SpeechMagic and version 2.0 of SpeechMagic Solution Builder, a clinical documentation application for German-speaking countries, Finland and Spain. Nuance made the announcement during its first European healthcare partner meeting in Vienna (November 12-13, 2009).
Source: eHealth News EU - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
Rudolfstiftung Hospital In Vienna, Austria, Installs Innovative Wireless X-ray System
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Rudolfstiftung Hospital in Vienna, one of five main hospitals of the Vienna Hospital Association, has installed a second CARESTREAM DRX-1 System following a successful trial during the Summer of 2009. The trial was initiated as a result of the hospital modernising its facilities across three X-ray rooms in a move to meet the required high demand for images, both in terms of capacity and quality.
Source: eHealth News EU - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
Blumenthal: Tear down walls that block information exchange
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David Blumenthal, MD, who leads the government's effort to transform the nation's healthcare system from paper to digital, is urging the industry to break down barriers to health data exchange.
To ensure the best patient care, he said, information exchange must reach every nook and cranny of the healthcare system.
In an e-mail sent Thursday – the third in a series – Blumenthal outlines the provisions of the HITECH Act that addresses barriers to exchange.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only David Blumenthal Industry News information technology Washington Source Type: news
AmeriHealth New Jersey Enhances Member Site with WebMD Health Information, Resources
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Imagine having your health care information at your fingertips, in one convenient place. No more surfing the Internet to find reliable, personalized, information. AmeriHealth New Jersey announces the launch of an enhanced member website at www.amerihealthexpress.com, which offers one convenient source for members' health care needs.
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: ISELIN Judith Roman New Jersey Paul Portsmore The AmeriHealth New Jersey WebMD Payers Vendors Source Type: news
Medical Identity Theft and Telemedicine Security
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Telemedicine and e-Health , Vol. 0, No. 0.
Source: Telemedicine and e-Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: article Source Type: journals
Blumenthal: Data exchange barriers need to disappear
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David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health IT, issued a letter Thursday addressing the need to eliminate inappropriate barriers to the implementation of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act mandates.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Report: Health IT to become 25% of healthcare market
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Health IT is the fastest growing segment of the $1 trillion global healthcare marketplace, and its 11 percent combined annual growth rate is likely to continue through 2013, according to a report from life sciences consulting firm Scientia Advisors.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Delivering on the Promise of eHealth
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Source: Healthcare IT News Events - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: 1068601 Tags: Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC Source Type: events
MEDecision taps Storrer as CEO, president
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Health IT developer MEDecision has selected Scott A. Storrer as its president and CEO to replace founder David St. Clair.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
National Quality Forum releases Quality Data Set
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The National Quality Forum has released a new quality data set, a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients' quality of care.
According to NQF officials, the QDS framework provides a standardized set of data that should be captured in patients' electronic health records and is applicable to all care settings a patient is likely to use in his or her lifetime.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Industry News Paul Tang Stanford University The National Quality Forum Washington Source Type: news
Colorado hospital deploys IT to manage business challenges
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The University of Colorado Hospital has implemented several new IT solutions to help clinical and administrative staff deal with business and workflow problems.
The Aurora-based hospital is the Rocky Mountain region's only academic medical center, said hospital officials. The decision to implement new solutions came with the need to streamline workflow processes and allow the hospital to move to a single enterprise system.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Aurora Colorado Colorado Hospital Darryl Varnado Kyle Hardy Lawson Software University of Colorado Hospitals & IDNs Source Type: news
Newcastle makes switch to Cerner
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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its new Cerner Millennium hospital information system.
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Going live
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Some 1,300 people converged on The ICC in Birmingham for E-Health Insider Live '09. E-Health Insider's editorial team was there to find out the latest on life inside and outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS and what the future may hold as a general election approaches.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
El Camino expands robotic surgery program
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El Camino Hospital has expanded its robotic surgery program to meet market demand, adding three surgical systems at the Mountain View, Calif. hospital and one at its Los Gatos site.
Hospital surgeons will perform prostate cancer, gynecologic and bariatric surgeries with the systems.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only bariatric surgeries California Camino Hospital El Camino Hospital Eric Pifer minimally invasive procedures Mountain View prostate cancer Robotic surgery Vinci Vinci Si HD Surgical Systems Hospitals & IDNs Source Type: news
3-D Software To Give Doctors, Students A View Inside The Body Developed By Iowa State Engineers
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James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. And there was a sight doctors had never seen before: an accurate, 3-D view inside a patient's body accessible with a personal computer. A view doctors can shift, adjust, turn, zoom and replay at will. Software that uses real patient data from CT and MRI scans.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Study: Trimming US Health Care Spending Will Require New Approaches
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Slowing the growth in U.S. health care spending will most likely require adoption of an array of strategies as well as an improved approach to moving promising strategies into widespread use, according to a new analysis by the RAND Corporation.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news
Studying The Inner Realm Of Living Cells
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Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode the cell while it is still living inside a plant or animal, vaporize its contents, and sniff. The study appears in online in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
Small Things Considered Wins Big At PRNews' 2009 Nonprofit Awards
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Small Things Considered, a microbiology blog published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has been honored with a non-profit public relations award from PR News for best blog. The awards were announced at a luncheon held in Washington, DC, on November 3, 2009. "I feel honored and pleased that a specialized subject area that's dear to my heart can garner such national recognition," said Moselio Schaechter, blog author and past president of the ASM.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
Study: Healthcare isn't ready for new security rules
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A recent survey of healthcare organizations found that 94 percent aren't ready to comply with the privacy and security provision of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which take effect next February.
The survey of 77 U.S. healthcare organizations was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting and consulting firms in the United States.
Source: Healthcare IT News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Crowe Horwath LLP Industry News information technology OAK BROOK stimulus Source Type: news
North East Essex tags infants
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The Fryatt Hospital in Harwich, Essex, has installed a new infant protection system to prevent children from being abducted.
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
National Effort To Recruit Volunteers For Medical Research
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A new national initiative involving UT Southwestern Medical Center will match volunteers who want to take part in medical research studies with the scientists who are leading those studies. ResearchMatch is a national partnership that will provide a free meeting place - via the Web - where volunteers can be matched to a scientific research project, or clinical trial, for which they might qualify.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Source Type: news
Putting The Squeeze On DNA
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Researchers in Egypt have developed a technique to compress DNA sequences of the kind used in medical research so that they take up a lot less space in a computer database but without loss of information. The approach is described in detail in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Slower Pupil Responses Seen In Children With Autism, University Of Missouri-Columbia Study Finds
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Autism affects 1 in 150 children today, making it more common than childhood cancer, juvenile diabetes and pediatric AIDS combined. Despite its widespread effect, autism is not well understood and there are no objective medical tests to diagnose it. Recently, University of Missouri researchers have developed a pupil response test that is 92.5 percent accurate in separating children with autism from those with typical development.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Autism Source Type: news
Researchers To Develop Probes To Understand Neuronal Navigation
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An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant to develop molecular probes that will help researchers better understand the "cellular GPS" system that guides neurons to create a properly wired nervous system.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
CWRU To Develop Technologies For Virtual Coaching To Help Patient-Doctor Communications
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Millions of people suffer from chronic ailments like heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, and need critical information from their healthcare providers to manage those diseases. Sometimes patients find it uncomfortable asking a doctor of another age, gender or race for information.
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news
McKesson to Support Continuity of Care Across Nationwide Healthcare Information Exchange
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Patients and clinicians to benefit from unprecedented connectivity
and interoperability
Source: McKesson News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
Quirón Group implements PACS
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The QuirÓ;n Group of Hospitals in Spain has significantly improved workflows after implementing the Carestream Health Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and Radiology Information System (RIS).
Source: E-Health Europe News - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Survey finds EHR adoption behind at hospitals treating the poor
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A new study published in Health Affairs finds that hospitals that disproportionately care for
low-income patients are falling behind in adopting electronic health records.
Source: Medical Economics - Technology - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: journals
New website offers individualized care plans
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The former head of Google Health has launched a new website, Keas.com, in an effort to provide
individualized care plans.
Source: Medical Economics - Technology - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: journals
