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Magazine
A make-or-break year for health IT | With ICD-10 looming in 2014, CIOs face tough decisions in deploying resources
By Merrill Goozner | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Information technology officers and their CEOs will be forced to make some tough choices in the months ahead. On a battlefield, it is called triage.
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Information
Kan. hospital works through tech problems
By Winfield (Kan.) Daily Courier | October 07, 2013
Last week, William Newton Hospital, Winfield, Kan., experienced an information technology system outage, when the hospital's main server at the hub of all digital operations ceased to function, said a hospital administrator. Staff immediately reverted to practices used before the introduction of...
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Defense Department's EHR plan may cost taxpayers billions
By Joseph Conn | October 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Defense Department's on-again, off-again flirtation with the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system appears to be on again. But this time, a lot of other suitors will compete for the military's affection and what likely will be billions of taxpayers' dollars.
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Vital Signs
Three developers split $3M in prize money for VistA scheduling software
By Joseph Conn | October 04, 2013
Three winners will split more than $3 million in prize money offered by the Veterans Affairs Department to upgrade the scheduling software module of its VistA electronic health-record system.
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Appointment with Drchrono? Bring your iPad
By InformationWeek | October 04, 2013
Many doctors have gotten used to bringing their iPads into the examining room, thanks to the Drchrono electronic health-records app. Now, patients will have the same good excuse for bringing their own iPads to appointments. Taking advantage of the AirDrop feature Apple introduced in iOS 7, Drchrono...
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MemorialCare, UC Irvine announce plan to open primary-care centers—with interoperability
By Andis Robeznieks | October 04, 2013
There has been a lot of complaining lately about the lack of interoperability in healthcare information technology and how the inability of computers to communicate with each other impedes organizing population health-improvement systems. But two Southern California organizations that just...
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Up to 1,800 patients' records were inappropriately viewed, UnityPoint Health says
By Des Moines (Iowa) Register | October 02, 2013
Someone gained unauthorized access to records of up to 1,800 people who were patients at UnityPoint Health hospitals, the company said today. West Des Moines-based UnityPoint, which used to be called Iowa Health System, operates hospitals and clinics throughout Iowa and in parts of Illinois.
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Vital Signs
Some Americans still confused about electronic health records, poll shows
By Rachel Landen | October 01, 2013
As healthcare providers work to adopt electronic health records and achieve Stage 2 meaningful-use standards, most Americans are confused and concerned about the transition from paper to digital, according to a survey by Xerox.
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Key part of EHR incentive program halted due to government shutdown
By Joseph Conn | October 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A key function of the electronic health-record incentive payment program was shut down Tuesday along with much of the federal government due to the failure of Congress to pass a continuing spending resolution.
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Intermountain to adopt Cerner's health information technology systems
By Joseph Conn | September 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Intermountain Healthcare has signed a deal to adopt Cerner's clinical and financial healthcare information technology software systems across its entire network of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics. Terms of the contract were not announced.
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