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Remaining HIPAA regulations will be getting a slow and careful look from federal rule-makers, who suddenly have a full plate of things to do.Meanwhile, there's no certainty how...
The Military Health System is investing in its future information system needs to the tune of $8 billion over the next 10 years.Some 20 companies will share in the funding, for...
California isn't the only state to seek IT solutions to solve a severe nursing shortage. While Wyoming might not share much in common with the Golden State, government officials believe the answer to...
Timothy R. Zoph is vice president of information services and chief information officer at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He is being honored at the 2004 HIMSS conference with the John...
In November 2001 the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) issued the report that outlined the vision for a National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII), which put into motion...
Steve Lieber, President/CEO of HIMSS, is a soft-spoken man from a small town in Arkansas, and I'm a boisterous guy, with a big booming voice, from the suburbs of New York. So wh...
Although this is our third issue of Healthcare IT News, we view this month's newspaper as our true debut. Not only has our circulation list more than doubled, but we're also arriving in Orlando at our...
A new Medicare demonstration project designed to reward hospitals for how their quality of care compares with other facilities will highlight the importance of information technology....
While many hospitals continue to rely on paper records as their IT teams explore the complexities of going electronic, Cincinnati Children's Medical Center already has made the switch....
Baylor Health Care System has set a seven-year timeline to complete its $119 million enterprise-wide clinical information initiative, which will result in a comprehensive electronic medical record tha...