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Indiana dishes out EHR services
The first electronic health record system, installed in Indiana in 1972, still serves as a model for other health systems.
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A blanket of SNOMED
One of the biggest stumbling blocks to the widespread use of health records is medical terminology.
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Medicaid records speed response
After spending four days tending patients in the New Orleans Superdome, Louisiana's Dr. Roxanne Townsend saw critical health information literally washing away.
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Wanted: Satellite Internet service
Officials at Mississippi's Biloxi Regional Medical Center felt the loss of crucial transaction-processing functions, such as insurance verification, because of downed circuits.
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Garrett: Revolutionizing health care
Massachusetts plans to convert to e-health records in the next five years.
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Carolinas HealthCare unplugged
The Carolinas Medical Center is introducing wireless technologies across all of its major campuses in North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Mending the safety net
CIOs say public hospital tech gap threatens national health network
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Best practices under pressure
As Hurricane Katrina evacuees poured into Tarrant County, Texas, health officials tried to keep to their best practices, only on a much larger scale.
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Diaspora dispatches
Stories of how individual health care workers, hospital IT staff and policy planners responded to Katrina reveal the glaring weaknesses -- and the buried potential -- of the nation's health IT infrastructure.
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Rx for sharing health records
Architects of the NHIN must figure out how to build a network that lets rival hospitals freely share patient data while competing with one another for market share.
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Editor's Note: When all the switches are thrown at once
The response to Katrina provided a unique chance to identify the thinnest strands in the health care delivery web.
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Citrix chooses new government VP
Simmons previously led enterprise sales in the company's Government Systems division.
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Unisys, Oracle tighten relationship
Companies to collaborate on government call centers, network and security management and other projects.
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North Dakota awards contract for secure driver's license
Massachusetts-based Viisage wins a five-year contract from North Dakota to develop a secure driver's license.
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Coalition bestows partnership awards
Perry gets a surprise recognition for his tenure at GSA.
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