German engineering and IT firm Siemens AG has confirmed that it will cut 16,750 jobs worldwide in order to save 1.2 billion euros in overhead costs. Siemens executives say most of the jobs cut will be administrative.

Westfield, Mass.-based Noble Hospital will install MedQuist Enterprise technology solutions for hospitalwide dictation, transcription and speech recognition. The community hospital creates more than 19,000 clinical reports each year.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey will invest up to $500,000 in select network hospitals to help with the implementation of electronic medication history IT systems.

Healthcare IT company Logicalis has developed a list of the top 10 information technology initiatives that have the attention of hospitals and other healthcare organizations across the country.

Orlando Health, a $1.5 billion not-for-profit healthcare organization, plans to adopt new warehouse and distribution management software to enable its recently adopted self-distribution model, which network leaders hope will help them squeeze cost out of their supply chain operations.

Healthcare technology comparison shoppers working under Washington state's Health Technology Assessment program are rating medical procedures to determine whether or not they are eligible for coverage by state agencies.

Each week, we receive feedback from you on the stories that sparked your interest, and compile your responses in the Healthcare IT News Weekly Mailbag. This week, we're featuring responses to our story on the VA's plans to implement telehealth at 44 clinics and another letter responding to our coverage of the New England Journal of Medicine physician EHR usage report.

Doctors resist the use of electronic health records because they fear the data will be used to control "what they do and how they do it," according to a recently released survey by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics has recovered the stolen patient billing backup tapes that went missing about a month ago.

Europe is setting its sights on the interoperability of electronic health records by 2015. The European Commission on Wednesday issued a recommendation on cross-border interoperability.