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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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Do doctors have to be typists to get MU incentives?
There's a snag in the proposed meaningful use Stage 2 rule, and it concerns whether or not doctors need to be good at typing. Depending on how the final requirements for Stage 2 play out, they might have to be.
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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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Press Releases

May 18, 2012
CMR selected by Priority Emergency Room as information system technology solution
May 18, 2012
FirstCare Health Plans selects Click4Care's care management platform for successful population health management
May 18, 2012
Rural critical medical center signs agreement for Net Medical Xpress telemedicine services
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Reactions to the CMS Care Innovations Summit
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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    HIMSS Virtual Briefing: The Future of Mobile Technologies and mHealth
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Computing cluster speeds targeted treatments for childhood cancer
Cloud-based research technology launched by Dell last year for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is gearing up for what's billed as the world's first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer. MORE
FCC to vote on broadband space for patient monitoring
Federal officials will soon consider a plan to set aside broadband spectrum for wireless healthcare monitoring devices, opening the door to more and better uses both inside and outside the hospital setting. MORE
Another IT deadline: HIX plans due Nov. 16
States must provide details to the federal government by Nov. 16 -- just 10 days after the presidential election -- on how they will run online insurance marketplaces, according to guidance released May 16. MORE
Vendor Notebook: InterSystems retools HealthShare platform
InterSystems has launched the next generation of its InterSystems HealthShare, a strategic informatics platform for interoperability and active analytics. Designed originally for public HIEs, officials say the technology has been extended and rearchitected for use by integrated delivery networks (IDNs). MORE
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May 18, 2012
Diana Manos

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
May 18, 2012
EJ Fechenda

Virtual Networking Works

I’ve touched on the importance of networking in the past, but after participating in the HIMSS Virtual Career Fair earlier this week, where I witnessed the power of networking firsthand, I’m a firm believer. MORE
May 18, 2012
Jennifer Dennard

Healing Healthcare in America with Technology

Sometimes healthcare hits close to home, and by that I mean it reaches out from behind the computer screens and conference podiums I sit so often in front of and grabs me by the shoulders, shaking me out of my blogging bubble with the message that this state of care we’re all living in needs to get better, quickly. MORE
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