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Pilot project to analyze claims attachments The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved funding for a proposal by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Fo...
The Southern Healthcare Administrative Regional Process (SHARP) Workgroup has looked at the more than 7,080 privacy and 147 transactions and code sets rule complaints that have been filed up to June 2...
The directors of CareDecision and KCWG Pharmaceutical Solutions, CareGeneration and FutureCom Global have proposed a merger to form NEXT GENeSYS Corp. The merger is expecte...
In order to better understand healthcare industry needs and frustrations related to business intelligence and budgeting and planning, Lawson Software commissioned KRC Research to conduct a survey at t...
A new Capgemini white paper addresses how the healthcare industry can overcome barriers to adoption of electronic health records. The paper names several key challenges an...
Duke University Health Systems (DUHS) has completed the first phase of its mobile computing initiative with its deployment of PatientKeeper Platform. DUHS's more than 300 p...
Health Level Seven, an accredited standards organization working on a set of standards for electronic health records, has signed an agreement with the Object Management Group to form a strategic colla...
Four hurricanes have wreaked havoc on Florida and its hospitals in the past weeks. Baptist Health Care in Pensacola is one hospital that managed to weather the storm – not unscathed, but in rea...
Doctors around the country view improvements in tablet PCs and wireless networks as aiding the adoption of electronic health records. Some who are using tablets say they provide invaluable efficiencie...
Does the Tablet PC have a place in healthcare computing and is it a format that clinicians will want in the future? It depends on whom you ask....