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Rural health IT grants get look over
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An information collection request for the Rural Health Information Technology Network Development Program, which aims to financially support health IT adoption in rural or underserved areas, has be  Read »

Canadian clinic makes personal health data available to patients
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The Amari Medical Clinic and Integrated Health Centre in Surrey, B.C. has tapped Cloud Practice Inc., to make test results, appointments, and healthcare states available to patients.  Read »

Intermountain measures total radiation
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Intermountain Heathcare has launched a program that measures cumulative radiation doses patients receive over their liferime for medical treatment.  Read »

Mostashari: Beacons 'taught us'
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The Beacon Communities proved that organizations can advocate changes to how healthcare is paid for by workin  Read »

EHR mastery proves elusive for many
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They never said navigating the electronic medical record landscape would be easy — at least not at  Read »

Healthland acquires American HealthTech
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Healthland, which develops information technology for rural hospitals and care facilities, announced Tuesday its acquisition of Jackson, Miss.-based American HealthTech, which specializes in electr  Read »

Health IT adoption doubles from 2012
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More than half of all eligible providers nationwide have received federal incentive payments for demonstrating meanin  Read »

DoD to go to market for its EHR
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has notified the Department of Defense that it will look for an Read »

Providers cite ECG integration woes
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Healthcare providers and industry IT professionals have expressed concern over their ECG technology's lack of bidirectional communication and poor Read »

EHRA critiques GOP's MU 'reboot' plan
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One month after six Republican Senators published a white paper calling for a new approach to the federal meaningful   Read »