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Challenges persist with Stark Law relaxation

 Patty Enrado July 02, 2009
The relaxation of the Stark Law enables hospitals to bear up to 85 percent of the cost of electronic health record implementation for community physician offices. Despite the generous subsidy, cost is still a barrier for many physicians, according to some experts.
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Docs to be wired

 Kyle Hardy July 02, 2009
In an effort to push California’s goal of a wired health system, The California Public Employee’s Retirement System has partnered with Anthem Blue Cross, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., and Blue Shield of California.
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IT at core of residency training

 Molly Merrill July 02, 2009
Information technology has been recognized as a key driver in an initiative that examines innovation in family medicine residency training.
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Hospitals leaning to IT for infection control

 Molly Merrill July 02, 2009
New financial and regulatory changes have opened the door for rapid growth emerging market of infection control software, according to forecasts from Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS. But an organization of hospital infection control personnel says hospitals don’t have the money.
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Product Spotlight: Smart Pumps

 Chip Means July 02, 2009
The July 2009 Product Spotlight shows how hospital infusion pumps are starting to get a little smarter with the expansion of wireless access and increased emphasis on closed loop pharmacy.
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New research network to launch in summer

 Healthcare IT News Staff July 01, 2009
The Integrated Research Network, a collaborative research community slated to launch this summer, will allow physicians to weigh in on comparative effectiveness research.
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CDS key to health reform

 Kyle Hardy July 01, 2009
Clinical decision support is emerging as a way for providers to cut costs and improve quality of care during an econmic recession.
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IT recognized as driver in new initiative

 Molly Merrill July 01, 2009
Information technology has been recognized as a key driver in an initiative that examines innovation in family medicine residency training.
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Cardinal Health awards $1M in grants

 Bernie Monegain July 01, 2009
The Cardinal Health Foundation awarded $1 million in grant funding for new IT-related programs to improve patient safety at 35 hospitals, health systems and community health clinics across the country.
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Intermountain, Geisinger get spotlight in Obama speech

 Bernie Monegain July 01, 2009
Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City and Geisinger Health in rural Philadlephia took the spotlight last month when President Barack Obama included them in a talk he gave in Green Bay, Wis.
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Investors bank on IT efficiency

 Bernie Monegain July 01, 2009
A Seattle-based company that has built and is operating 13 hospitals in Asia is poised to grow by 18 more in Malaysia, India and Vietnam by the end of 2011, and it could serve as inspiration across the United States on how to do more with less.
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Missed point on reform

 David St. Clair July 01, 2009
Recently I attented the Tenth Annual Innovation 2009 Conference in California. One of the issues garnering a lot of attention was the notion that the Obama healthcare reform plan could ultimately wind up creating a government-run insurer.
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Doing more with less needs new governance style

 Fran Turisco July 01, 2009
The demand for new and more advanced IT systems has never been greater.
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Switching to digital

 Paul Lundy July 01, 2009
There is no denying that achieving President Obama’s goal, now law, of having electronic health records for every American by 2014 is a daunting task and one that challenges most healthcare organizations.
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Mend those fragmented ways of making decisions

 Joerg Heintz July 01, 2009
As hospital systems and other healthcare providers with complex organizations – struggle to prepare for health reform and advances in health IT, a simple procedural approach will help.
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Stalking the elusive meaning

 Bernie Monegain July 01, 2009
Many of us probably have had our fill of talk about “meaningful use.” Perhaps some of us thought we would have the last word on it on June 16 when the federal Health IT Policy Committee provided some recommended criteria to the nation’s healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal.
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Americans flock online for health info

 Molly Merrill June 30, 2009
The majority of American adults look online for health information and most are accessing reviews and comments posted by fellow consumers, according to a new report.
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White House and health IT

 Diana Manos June 30, 2009
As the battle over health reform wages, someone vested in healthcare IT may wonder, how does this concern me? How much change can I expect?
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Future hazy for implantable medical records

 Molly Merrill June 30, 2009
The public is not likely to adopt the use of human implantable chips, says John Halamka, MD, CIO at Harvard Medical School and CareGroup in Massachusetts, who still has one implanted in his arm.
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Coalition target billions in imaging waste

 Bernie Monegain June 30, 2009
A new imaging E-ordering coalition has launched a national initiative to promote healthcare information technology-enabled decision-support (e-Ordering) as a way to ensure that all patients receive the most medically appropriate diagnostic imaging test for their specific condition.
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