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2006

Realizing the Vision for IT in Healthcare
Digital Healthcare and Productivity, December 26, 2006
We're moving knowledge from its source. We've got all this knowledge from the medical literature and from the patients themselves. We're trying to move that to our everyday actions in medical care. And we said the way to do that is to put it in human heads and the human heads will take the actions," Weed said, to hearty laughter.

It's time to get familiar with health information technology
Staten Island Advance, November 13, 2006
In order to get ready for the "revolution" in health information technology, you will need to become familiar with some of the terminology.

Anti-fraud requirements for EHRs in development
Health Imaging News, October 27, 2006
Under the terms of the contract, RTI researchers will work with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and SPSS to take a proactive approach to preventing healthcare fraud.

Web site helps avoid wait at doctor's office
Fort Wayne Business Weekly, September, 18, 2006
The Internet-based system allows users to create a secure medical record and transfer that information to physicians' offices, eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the data on a paper form.

TMA strengthens effort to employ more technology in health care
Austin Business Journal, August 17, 2006
"TMA has an exciting opportunity to help our physicians learn how to utilize electronic health records to improve patient care," says TMA CEO Lou Goodman.

Health-care IT vendors urge Infoway to reconsider standard stance
IT Business, July 24, 2007
HL7 is considered a key standard for allowing the  interchange of clinical, financial, and administrative information in an electronic health record (EHR). Infoway’s mandate is to establish a national EHR by 2009.

Newspapers Examine Issues Related to Health Care Technology
Kaiser Network, June 26, 2006
Two newspapers on Monday published articles on issues related to health care technology. Summaries appear below.

50% of EMR Implementations Fail – AdvancedEMR has the Solution
PR Web, May 22, 2006
“Our EMR software is easier to implement than others and it’s very intuitive for small practices. After a year of beta testing in the field, we’ve been able to create a remarkable EMR product,” Pack concluded.

President's health-care IT guru resigns
San Francisco Business Times, April 21, 2006
Brailer, President George Bush's national coordinator for Health IT, cited family reasons for his departure, and said the digital health-care effort is "mature and moving in the right direction," according to an April 20 report in the Financial Times.

FCA Recognizes ACOM's RAPID EMR Clincial Documentation/Reporting Chiropractic Software for Membership Benefit Program
eMediawire, March 8, 2006
Currently celebrating its 75th Anniversary, the FCA has more than 4,000 members and is the largest state chiropractic association in the country, Brown said. While citing a need to retain “professional neutrality,” she said that ACOM EMR will nevertheless be allowed to market RAPID EMR to the membership indirectly and that the association would provide a level of passive support, including authorized use of the FCA logo.

HIMSS: Many Hospitals Slow to Implement Electronic Medical Records
Medpage Today, February 20, 2006
Some 24% of the hospitals in the United States say they have fully implemented an electronic medical records system, according to a survey reported here. But about 12% of hospitals don't even have one on the drawing board.

First National Health Information Network for Medical Record Exchange Released by MedUnity
PR Newswire, January 10, 2006
MedUnity has designed the system to overcome the technology implementation hurdles which have hampered adoption of technology in health care, mainly cost to implement and initial startup efforts required.

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