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The line forms at the left for Congressional plans offering to provide federal support for healthcare IT efforts. As of mid-May, at least three proposals are floating around, an...
The evolution in messaging standards from Health Level Seven will cause no small degree of angst for healthcare organizations and the vendors that serve them. Its third version...
Dr. David Brailer, the nation's new healthcare IT czar, says he fully intends to meet President Bush's July deadline for a strategic plan to upgrade the federal government's use of healthcare informat...
THERE IS NOT A LOT of room for proprietary technology and variant terminology in healthcare. Being able to share data securely through a broad range of devic...
DAVID BRAILER, the economist, physician and entrepreneur tapped to become the first national healthcare IT coordinator, is clearly uncomfortable with the...
WHILE PRESIDENT BUSH'S recent focus on electronic medical records (EMR) has brought widespread attention to the significant role that they can play in improvin...
IT vendors, fresh from the National Managed Health Care Congress, are focusing on providing greater integration and added functionality to their managed care products this year....
HealthGate Data and Physician Direct ePPO have teamed up to offer financial incentives to both providers and patients by having them use HealthGate Data's Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Clinical Guidel...
Premera Blue Cross, one of 41 independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans is rolling out the SumTotal Enterprise Suite as its strategic platform for learning management and learning content managemen...
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, the largest health insurance plan in the state, has purchased IBM's storage virtualization software to help manage what the payer describes as an immense number of h...