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PICIS does about face on its IPO

 Eric Wicklund August 09, 2007
WAKEFIELD, MA - Less than a month after withdrawing its request for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, Picis, Inc. explained that decision with a new financing agree...
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LookAhead

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 09, 2007
AUGUST 19 - 22: Meeting on Health Care Quality and Medical Errors, Cambridge, Mass.21 - 22: MS-HUG Tech Forum 2007, Redmond, Wash.22 - 22: Health Identificati...
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Graphs - August 2007

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 09, 2007
GRAPHS - AUGUST 2007 - coming soon....
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New Products

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
Elsevier launches online training tool for Docs Philadelphia, PA - Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, ha...
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Indiana network delivers to EHRs

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Health Information Exchange and the not-for-profit Community Health Network says the IHIE's DOCS4DOCS service is now delivering clinical results directly into ph...
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Panel urges hospitals to do NPI now

 Diana Manos August 01, 2007
FAIRFAX, VA - Providers should not procrastinate using National Provider Identifiers, according members of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange. The C...
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New Jersey hospital automates

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
HOLMDEL, NJ - Bayshore Community Hospital, a 225-bed acute care facility will add new technology to support several patient safety initiatives. "Everyone at Bayshore is fo...
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John Muir Health signs AT&T networking deal

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
WALNUT CREEK, CA - John Muir Health has signed a new optical networking services contract with AT&T. Under the five-year contract, AT&T will serve as the primary networking services provider for...
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VA hospitals add anesthesia management software

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - Five medical centers in the Veterans Health Administration's Sierra Pacific Network will soon implement software to automate anesthesia documentation and to help streamline...
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Panel prescribes e-fix for veterans

 Bernie Monegain August 01, 2007
WASHINGTON - Paper-choked processes that delay or prevent wounded war veterans from receiving the care they need are at the crux of the failures at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a blue...
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Docs save millions with IT

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
WASHINGTON - All 10 physician practices participating in the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration improved the clinical management of diabetes patients in the first year of the three-...
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Hooking up hospitals in Louisiana

 Bernie Monegain August 01, 2007
Shreveport, LA - Thirteen million dollars in state supplemental funds translates into a boon for the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, which will begin this year to connect the first seven of...
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Industry Webbriefs

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
VA makes disaster recovery top priority The Department of Veterans Affairs has chosen Royal Philips Electronics of Andover, Mass., to provide a disaster re...
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Value, relevance key to HIE success

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
Contributed by John Kansky, HIMSS Fellow Communities small and large are in a quandary about where to begin to accomplish health information exchange (HIE). And with a multitude of...
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PQRI can boost physician income

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) took effect on July 1, and some in the healthcare industry think that this federal pay-for-performance program could eventually le...
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Pharmacies push Medicare on e-prescribing

 Diana Manos August 01, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, a national association representing America's pharmacy benefit managers, has launched a campaign to make e-prescribing a Medica...
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Bidding farewell to desktops

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
VOORHEES, NJ - Physician practices install information technology to help solve readily apparent clinical and administrative problems. But sometimes that technology - once implemented ...
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More family docs using EHRs

 Richard Pizzi August 01, 2007
SHAWNEE MISSION, KS - The number of family physicians using electronic health records has risen consistently since the American Academy of Family Physicians first began measuring EHR usage...
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Physician Newsbriefs

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
OHIO RADIOLOGISTS CHOOSE RIS/PACS PROVIDER Kettering Radiologists Imaging Centers of Southwestern Ohio plans to implement the Minimally Invasive WebChart RIS/PACS system from Medi...
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Tech Briefs

 Healthcare IT News Staff August 01, 2007
AHIP launches new certificate program for IT professionals Information technology and business consulting professionals may now attain an industry credential demonstrating domain...
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