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6 reasons physicians need to be on social media
At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference this past week, Mike Sevilla, MD, family physician and blogger at Family Medicine Rocks, took the stage to present not only his own social media story, but to convince other physicians why they need to be on social media, too.
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Web First: Q&A with Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman
Allscripts had a great fall. CEO Glen Tullman says he and his team will put the EHR company together again -- better and stronger. He talks about what went wrong, the difficulties of integration, plans for recovery and Allscripts' future in the market.
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5 reasons data inaccuracies occur in EMRs
Studies have shown in recent years that the quality of data in many electronic medical records is often not very good. According to Peter Witonsky, president and chief sales officer at iSirona, this is largely due to simple inaccuracies that occur more often than we think.
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Slideshow: Advances in personalized medicine
New ways to mine and analyze "big data," along with advances in genomics, are helping researchers and clinicians across the country better target treatment for patients. View this slideshow to learn about personalized medicine initiatives.
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May 2012 print feature: The art of medicine
We're living in an iOS world nowadays, but sometimes, to look at them, it seems EHRs are stuck in a Windows '97 rut.
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Full coverage of Election 2012
The national debate around healthcare has intensified in the 2012 elections. Healthcare IT News is deciphering the political doublespeak and asking the questions our readers find most pertinent – about politicians, healthcare policies and delivery system reform at the federal, state, and local levels.
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May 22, 2012
GE Healthcare to collaborate with Karolinska University Hospital to advance cell therapy technologies
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Attendees of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Care Innovations Summit discuss their takeaways from the event, which drew more than 1,000 attendees in person and 1,500 online viewers.
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The uncertain future of health insurance exchanges
In this episode of the Political Malpractice podcast, Senior Editor Mary Mosquera discusses legislative wrangling inhibiting health insurance exchanges and looks at some states that are making tangible progress anyway.
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AlliedHIE, ICA launch behavioral health HIE
Looking to remedy organizational problems that hamper health information exchange, AlliedHIE and Nashville, Tenn.-based ICA have partnered to launch an HIE that officials say will target healthcare organizations' infrastructure and communications issues. MORE
Lawsuit seeks Allscripts CEO's removal
Healthcor Manangement, LP, one of the largest shareholders of health IT company Allscripts, has filed a lawsuit against the company in an effort to remove CEO Glen Tullman, according to a Reuters report. MORE
Tablet adoption by docs soars
Physicians use of devices and digital technology is evolving much faster than anticipated, especially when it comes to tablets, where adoption nearly doubled since 2011, according to a new study from healthcare market research and advisory firm Manhattan Research. MORE
St. Vincent telehealth program sees reduced readmissions, big ROI
Bluetooth-capable stethoscopes, allowing doctors to hear heart sounds from across the country, are just one innovation Saint Vincent Health System is using in its new telehealth network, which has reduced hospital readmissions and generated a 100 percent ROI in less than two months, officials say. MORE
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May 22, 2012
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Examining Healthcare Costs

Last year the non-profit Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) was formed and started with some Medicare data as well as billions of claims from Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. MORE
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Last Call for Cleveland Clinic Nursing Event

The nursing profession continues to gain much momentum within the HIMSS community. Our membership of nurses continues to grow under the auspices of Joyce Sensmeier, Vice President, HIMSS Informatics. MORE
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Like it or not, MU is underway

No matter how you feel about the federal incentive program to drive the adoption of healthcare it, the numbers speak for themselves. MORE
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