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HHS ‘community’ gets to work
Personal health records, telemonitoring and biosurveillance top the agenda of the American Health Information Community.
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Nevada docs get nearly free e-prescribing software
The deal among a county medical society, the state's largest health plan and a medical records software company aims to provide the software to all the doctors in the state.
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New rules will ease health IT adoption
One rule sets forth initial standards for e-prescribing and another makes it easier for hospitals to donate equipment to cash-strapped physicians.
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BearingPoint gets more USAID work
The new contract includes both IT and non-IT projects in support of an economic modernization effort in Egypt.
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SEC looking to industry to help with XBRL
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the software industry to help it identify ways to receive, store, find and analyze interactive financial data.
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San Diego County launches regional health net
Program could improve care for uninsured patients showing up in emergency rooms.
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Have briefcase, will travel
4 portable technologies for business travelers to take on the road
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Getting it together
HP and Peregrine to meld their technologies through acquisition
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Center allows industry to explore cybersecurity
The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a new research center to explore short-term solutions to cybersecurity problems.
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California, Blue Cross to implement telemedicine
About 90,000 members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System who live in rural areas will be able to receive medical advice via a network.
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VHA to consolidate vets’ health data
The initiative requires the agency to standardize data that has been entered in text form in the past, often with misspellings and nonstandard abbreviations.
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