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Dennis Horrigan, president and CEO of Catholic IPA Western New York, a partnership between Catholic Health and a network of associated physicians, said that despite the challenges electronic medical records is valuable to providers, patients and other stakeholders.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: The Buffalo News | Date: April 13, 2009 |
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Eight health centers in Maryland will be the recipients of $951,000 from the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act signed by President Barack Obama in March to implement electronic health records.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Baltimore Business Journal | Date: April 13, 2009 |
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Hamilton, the director of pharmacy for Winter Haven Hospital's Regency Medical Center and president of the American Pharmacists Association, said that pharmacists need to have access to computerized patient records to help improve patient outcomes and collaborate with the other care providers.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Newschief.com | Date: April 13, 2009 |
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The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs will create a joint electronic medical record for streamlined movement of health records between the agencies, President Obama announced on Thursday, April 9.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Healthcare IT News | Date: April 10, 2009 |
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Healthcare IT is a tool to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, according to David Blumenthal, MD, appointed to become the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in the New England Journal of Medicine.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: New England Journal of Medicine (subscription) | Date: April 10, 2009 |
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Healthcare IT companies are looking to beef up their R&D and marketing to be able to tap into the stimulus funding for the adoption of healthcare IT and the build out of health information exchanges.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Washington Business Journal | Date: April 10, 2009 |
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Paul Tang, MD, chief medical information officer of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, a member of the editorial board of Healthcare IT News, and Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, are among 13 members recently named to a new federal advisory committee on healthcare information technology.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Healthcare IT News | Date: April 10, 2009 |
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Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition told attendees at a HIMSS09 session that telemedicine programs, a health information exchange, electronic health record and other resources and tools have helped the state raise the quality of its health outcomes.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Government Health IT | Date: April 9, 2009 |
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Jordan Rice, CEO of I-Med, outlines a strategy for CIOs on how to meet HIPAA security provisions for protecting personal health information.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Advance | Date: April 9, 2009 |
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The Colorado Health Foundation awarded 12 nonprofit healthcare organizations in the state $2 million each toward the implementation of healthcare IT. Among the uses of the money will be the creation of health information exchange.
| Channel: RHIOs | Source: Healthcare IT News | Date: April 9, 2009 |
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