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Study: Health Data Exchange Advances
Although more health care organizations are becoming enabled to transmit records electronically internally and within a regional network, a…
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Health Plan Providers Have Good IT; Execs Want More
Health insurers have driven much of the automation currently existing in the health care system, motivated by the need…
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$200 Billion Price Tag for National Health Network
In a landmark paper released in the August issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, a panel of experts…
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Drug Monitoring Is Inadequate, Physicians Report
A recent study by industry consultancy Accenture found that about two-thirds of doctors and one-third of consumers have become…
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Oracle Implements Thai Electronic Medical Records
The Thai government has launched the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences Pharmacogenomics Project, in collaboration with Oracle,…
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Medicare Lacks Health IT
A report recently released by the HSC (Center for Studying Health System Change), a nonpartisan policy research organization, revealed…
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Canada Invests in Health IT
In the last three years, the Canadian government has devoted only about $126 million toward health IT through Canada…
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IT Use for Drug Discovery to Rise
Informatics research breakthroughs are becoming commonplace in the life sciences at universities and research institutes around the globe, but…
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Consumers Are Top Priority for Managed Care CIOs
After a recent conference held by the Managed Care Executive Group, the organization released a list of the top…
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Health IT M&A Grows in Q1
In the first quarter of this year, there were 22 merger and acquisition deals for health care information technology…