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Can a non-profit consortium tackle some of healthcare's biggest issues? Dossia aims to find out -- with Wal-Mart as a key testing environment.
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Big companies like Wal-Mart are backing an electronic health records consortium called Dossia. The impact on the business and practice of healthcare could be profound. For an in-depth view of Dossia, see this article.

 
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Hospitals Put IT in Second Place
Innovations 2006: Information technology is a priority for hospitals, but with many of them facing a difficult financial environment exacerbated by the ballooning ranks of the uninsured investing in new IT systems may have to wait.
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Providence Health & Services lost information on 365,000 patients—after 10 backup tapes and disks were stolen from the back of an employee's minivan. Now, 12 months and $7 million later, the health-care provider remains mired in the aftermath. Here's
In the expensive, confused world of healthcare IT, the slightly less-convoluted world of military IT might be the right model to follow.
Twenty-one grants of up to $100,000 were recently awarded to state and local health departments and public health institutes.
About 60 percent of the military are now on an electronic medical records system that functions worldwide. The military recently put on a public demonstration of the system, called AHLTA.

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Innovations 2006: Information technology is a priority for hospitals, but with many of them facing a difficult financial environment exacerbated by the ballooning ranks of the uninsured investing in new IT systems may have to wait.
If 2004 was rightly hailed as beginning of the dot.gov boom in health IT, 2005 must be hailed as the year of committees.
Giant GE Healthcare has teamed up with MobileAccess to enable hospitals to use common infrastructure for their wireless applications, such as cell phones, pagers, public safety radio and Wi-Fi.
According to health IT proponents and organizations, exceptions to anti-kickback laws do not do much to calm hospitals' fears about helping community physicians adopt health information technology.
With a keynote from Intel chairman Craig Barrett, technology aimed at seniors took a place of prominence at this week's White House Conference on Aging.
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