EHRs

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Interoperability centre stage in Dallas

Interoperability was the operative word among the nearly 22,000 health IT professionals at the 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems
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Urgent need for joined-up IT to improve US healthcare

An influential new report identifies fragmentation as a key cause of problems in the American healthcare system and says IT
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MedInfo 2004: a global view of health connectivity

Health IT leaders from England, Australia, Canada and the US met at the recent MedInfo 2004 conference to compare notes
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Health connectivity: the global holy grail

SAN FRANCISCO— The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) may be the envy of many a country for its £6.2
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Electronic decision support for US veterans

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to introduce a new computer system at all its 158 medical centres
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US medics may be paid to use electronic patient records

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy Thompson, has published a 10-year plan that plans to introduce
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National US health information infrastructure called for

 The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data
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US Institute Publishes Core Capabilities for EHRs

In a new report the independent Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the US National Academies, has published a set
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New Approach on Electronic Records Needed

Despite the investment of tens of billions of Euros in healthcare IT the industry worldwide has failed to deliver on
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