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The Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense are teaming up to build a common Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. The new system is to be based on the VA’s Open Source software known as VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems…
Widespread use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the Health Care industry is expected to make the industry much more efficient and dramatically improve the quality of health care that is provided. The vision is shared by many, and one…
Data breaches at hospitals have recently been in the headlines: 1.7 million records from patients, vendors and contractors was stolen in a breach of New York City Health and Hospital Corp (HHC) information, a system of 14 hospitals. The information…
Doctors have always had a love for expensive high-tech medical equipment. Think multimillion-dollar proton-beam therapy centers, robotic surgery, and advanced imaging technologies. But when it comes to the mundane tasks of running their office as a business, doctors have been…
This month the federal government launched a pilot in Minnesota and Rhode Island for the sharing of electronic health records via the internet. The pilot is being called “the Direct Project“. The pilot will expand next into New York,…