Old tech wastes billions in health care costs
U.S. hospitals using out of date technology waste around $8.3 billion a year, due to lost productivity and increased patient discharge times.
Health IT focus is on interoperability
A great number of hospitals have adopted electronic health record systems, so the focus now should shift to interoperability.
Venture capital health IT deals soar in 2013
The number of health IT-related venture capital deals from first quarter fiscal 2012 to first quarter fiscal 2013 have taken an impressive jump, with the number tripling quarter over quarter.
MHS management gets new oversight
Senior officials at the Pentagon have become frustrated with the Defense Department's lackluster efforts with its Military Health Service, and has switched management and oversight to Frank Kendall.
Is health IT risking patient safety?
The FDA has formed a work group to look at patient safety risks posed by health IT.
8 "can't miss" health IT opportunities
The health IT market is target rich, from analytics to the cloud to social media, but there also are plenty of challenges around politics, culture and inertia. The market might not be moving fast but it is moving. Are you positioned for this opportunity?
Texas gets help with health IT incentive program
As feds prepare to hand out billions in health IT incentive rewards, a system integrator offering support systems and services strikes a deal with Texas.
Open data is changing health care, panel says
Opening data to patients and outside developers is leading health care toward a fundamental change in how patients get care, panelists said today at the Executive Leadership Council.
Is open source the cure for what ails VA's e-records?
An industry group convened by VA CIO Roger Baker is advising that VistA move to an open source platform and phase out MUMPS.
Health IT gets a $220M funding transfusion
The Health and Human Services Department will give 15 nonprofit organizations $220 million for health IT pilot projects.
HHS awards $267M for health IT regional centers
The Health and Human Services Department funds centers designed to help doctors and rural hospitals use health IT.
HHS provides $144M for health IT training and research
The Health and Human Services Department is handing out $144 million to set up health IT workforce training programs and health IT research projects.
IT plays critical role in health care reform
Health information technology and electronic health records (EHRs) underpin many of the provisions in the comprehensive health reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president.
HHS awards $100M for pediatric e-health records
The Health and Human Services Department is investing in the development of pediatric electronic health records in 18 states.
HHS plans move to cloud for regional centers
The software will help the RECs to more effectively track and manage medical providers implementing electronic health record systems
Hospitals face compliance problems with HITECH Act
Hospitals are coping with new privacy and security regulations for health information technology that went into effect Feb. 17.
IBM's health exchange pilot generates extra $2M for users, study says
A health data exchange between MedVirginia and the Social Security Administration is generating extra revenue, a new report says.
FDA readies new data systems for drug safety
The Food and Drug Administration will expand its tracking of drug safety once the drugs enter the marketplace, according to a new report.
IT turkeys: 7 government projects worthy of a roast
Over the years, the American public has been gifted with its share of computer-based turkeys -- information technology projects gone wrong, often at spectacular expense.
HHS to award health-data network contracts by year's end
HHS is planning to award a series of competitive contracts for the Nationwide Health Information Network later this year.
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