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Now that many office-based physicians and a majority of hospitals have used electronic health-records systems for a year or longer, the federal government will work on nudging providers to get better at sharing the contents.
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Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and healthcare information technology futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
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Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and health IT futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
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Five major health IT companies announced plans for a shared, centralized platform.
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has named Dr. Andrew Wiesenthal, director of healthcare practice, Deloitte Consulting, San Francisco, and eight others to the federally chartered Health IT Standards Committee, according to an...
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“We called it the Sunny von Bülow bill. These companies that should have been dead were being put on machines and kept alive for another few years. The biggest players drew this incredible huddle around the rule-makers and the rules are ridiculously favorable to these companies and...
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Athenahealth, Watertown, Mass., has received federal antitrust clearance to acquire mobile application developer Epocrates for $293 million through cash and existing credit lines.
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Athenahealth, a health information technology company, announced its second acquisition agreement since September with a $293 million cash deal for Epocrates, a mobile application developer.
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Hospital stocks ended 2012 posting big gains despite a year that was filled with uncertainty regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Providers have chosen their favorite healthcare IT vendors in a market research firm's annual survey, and Epic Systems Corp., Verona, Wis., came out as the preferred software vendor in eight of 23 categories.
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