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The annual Health 2.0 Conference is wrapping up in Santa Clara, Calif., today, and with it come several launches worth noting.
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Physicians believe electronic health records can improve patient outcomes but feel that EHR costs outweigh any financial benefits they might have, according to the fourth annual athenahealth Physician Sentiment Index.
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Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s plan to buy Vanguard Health Systems creates new opportunities for the vendors that work with the two companies.
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CareCloud, a Boston-based provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record and medical billing software and services, has named Tom Cady VP of professional services.
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Four healthcare systems and technology giant IBM have joined the Premier healthcare alliance in a data analytics venture, making the second announcement this week of healthcare providers going in with a big-data partner.
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The usability of electronic health-record systems varies widely, and developers of EHRs that do a lot of handholding after the sale score highest on usability ratings, according to a report by health information technology market researcher KLAS Enterprises.
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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It takes some pluck to drive in West Virginia, probably to live there, too, amid the many mountains, valleys, hills and “hollers.” As one plucky experiment in open-source health information technology ends in the Mountain State, another continues to thrive.
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It sometimes takes a phone call to make meaningful use of electronic health records in rural areas. In the central West Virginia village of Clay, with a population of about 490, Dr. Sarah Chouinard heads Community Care of West Virginia, also a Community Health Network member.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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