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EHRs Underused For Hospital Infection Reporting

Half of infection prevention specialists are unaware if their organizations even participate in electronic health information exchanges, says study.

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4 Health IT Themes To Watch At HIMSS13

Interoperability challenges, patient experience, mobile technology will be in spotlight at annual health IT conference.

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HIMSS: Hospitals Making Progress On Meaningful Use

Survey of healthcare CIOs reveals good progress toward fully functional EHRs, but questions about ACOs, staffing, interoperability loom.

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Big Data Helps Kaiser Close Healthcare Gaps

Analytics from massive clinical data repository are central to closing gaps in care, HIMSS attendees told.

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Bill Clinton Stumps For Health IT At HIMSS

Former president touts IT's potential to empower small players in a massive system, as HIMSS pledges $2.5 million to further Clinton Global Initiative goals.

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Informatics Pioneer Says Healthcare Needs Better Systems

Dr. Lawrence Weed continues his longstanding advocacy for computer-aided healthcare and revamping medical education.

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Pathology Network Offers Global Remote Diagnostic Services

New PathCentral Pathology Network enables remote consultation and image sharing via cloud, with hopes to address specialist shortages in developing regions.

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Big Data Use In Healthcare Needs Governance, Education

Using big data effectively requires everything from setting up a basic management framework to teaching analytics in medical school, says one consultant.

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Could Clinical Decision Support Empower Patients?

It's time the medical establishment heeded the longstanding advice of informatics pioneer Larry Weed and used "participatory" diagnostic methods.

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Allscripts Drops Suit Against NYC Public Health System

N.Y. health system disputed the claim that it will overpay for rival Epic Systems' electronic health record system.

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Topol Gives Colbert a Dose of 'Destruction'

Scripps cardiologist and noted proponent of wireless health technologies Eric Topol shows off gadgets to comedian's audience.

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National Patient ID System: Debate Stoked

Hoping to spark a national conversation on information exchange, health IT advocate petitions to lift ban on HHS national patient identification system.

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Supercomputer Apps Tackle Cancer, Autism, Heart Attacks

Healthcare and life sciences apps sweep top three spots in YarcData contest, a unit of supercomputing pioneer Cray, showcasing the power of graph analytics.

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Hospital Cuts Readmissions With Focus On Primary Care

Software links emergency department patients with follow-up care to cut nonessential return trips to the hospital.

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NCQA Tests New Healthcare Quality Measure

Unified, risk-based model of assessing healthcare performance expected to be more clinically relevant to physicians than current measures.

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Navy To Digitize Shipboard Medical Imaging

Agfa to supply digital radiography, PACS, speech recognition technology for 42 U.S. ships to connect to Walter Reed radiologists.

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Will Doctors 'C' The Way To Accountable Care?

Health IT vendor Lumeris develops "Nine C's" framework to help primary care physicians achieve healthcare reform goals.

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Healthcare Patient Engagement Remains Elusive

Processes, attitudes, poor design, even fear of too much data stand in the way of true care partnerships. Is greater patient autonomy the answer?

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Rx Abuse Data Tools Sought By Healthcare

Doctors, pharmacies could more easily join fight against drug diversion if states followed uniform data rules, says standards organization NCPDP.

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University of Kentucky HealthCare Revamps Order Sets

Kentucky health system beta-tests Elsevier authoring tool as it streamlines a decade of CPOE history.

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Kolodner Joins Telehealth Firm ViTel Net

Former national health IT coordinator moves to the vendor side, aims to use high-speed mobile data infrastructure to give patients more care options.

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Healthcare Reform Too Focused On Doctors: Telemedicine Pioneer

Hopkins physician Jay Sanders, known as the father of telemedicine, says emphasis should be on changing patient behavior.

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Medicare Proffers $1 Billion For Healthcare Innovation Projects

Federal health agency offers funding for new models of nonhospital care that cut federal health expenditures, improve health of specific patient populations.

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Research: Health IT Salaries: Nowhere To Go But Up

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VentureHealth: Investing In Better Patient Outcomes

New healthcare platform combines VC and crowd-funding to increase healthcare innovation and boost quality of care.

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