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Byline: Ken Wysocky Going paperless isn't feasible for every dealership. But management at Andy Mohr Chevrolet in Plainfield, Ind., did the next best thing by adopting digital document-management technology from [...]

Byline: Jessica Kim Cohen Dead or alive, patients have the same privacy protections under federal healthcare privacy rules, legal experts warn. So while there's a growing public interest in data [...]

Create an algorithm in the electronic health record that identifies patients at risk for sepsis.Establish a remote team of nurses who monitor sepsis alerts and communicate with bedside clinicians.Enable nurses [...]

Byline: Rachel Z. ArndtInteroperability remained just beyond the horizonFrom the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to the CMS to Apple, there was a cacophony of voices [...]

Byline: JAY GREENE Altarum Institute in Ann Arbor has begun to hire more than 100 people in Michigan with medical information technology expertise to staff the Michigan Center for Effective [...]

Imagine a health care system in which every provider knows every relevant detail about a patient without that patient having to fill out repetitive forms. Imagine a world where multiple [...]

The U.S. government is providing the single largest kick-start to health information technology in the history of that industry, under a subsection of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act called [...]

Byline: Jennifer Lubell Lawmakers who want to offer a 10% Medicare reimbursement increase for emergency department care are looking to health information technology adoption of all things to offset that [...]

The government's push for more information technology in healthcare achieves abysmal penetration rates, as least in electronic health records. Two Boston-area researchers tell HHS' health information advisory panel that adoption [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Gardner Sometimes a carrot alone isn't enough. Sometimes you need the stick. When James Mongan took the helm of Partners HealthCare System in Boston in 2003, he set [...]

Provision: Auditable records Statement: Provide audit capabilities for system access and usage indicating the author, the modification (where pertinent), and the date and time at which a record was created, [...]

Byline: John Bosco As part of its mission to improve the health and quality of life for the people and communities it serves, the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System [...]

Byline: Matthew DoBias Physicians looking to regional health information organizations as a solution to their electronic records needs may be out of luck. New research data suggest RHIOs are struggling [...]

Byline: Ralph Kisiel Lear Corp. is almost done with a two-year project to archive its growing mountain of electronic records, but the effort has been far more than just housekeeping. [...]

NEW YORK - The New York Stock Exchange could be sitting on a hidden electronic block trading gem. Several brokerage firms and specialists have examined the exchange's complicated and complex [...]

Byline: Joseph Conn Hurricane Katrina tested many things, including public warning systems, levees, disaster plans and evacuation procedures, among other things. It also tested healthcare information systems in hospitals and [...]