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At the July meeting of the Hanley Leadership Forum, Maine’s nonprofit HealthInfoNet announced that it will “go live” with the nation's largest statewide electronic health information exchange (HIE). Only Delaware and Vermont have similar statewide exchanges in operation. 

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is considering the recommendation of the HIT Policy Committee sent to David Blumenthal, national coordinator for HIT (healthcare information technology), that the “federal government should certify EHR and health i

Health Net Inc., a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based managed healthcare provider, announced Nov. 18 that a data security breach caused a loss of patient data for 1.5 million of its customers.

When addressing EHR implementation and use, most organizations focus on the information inputted while a patient is at an appointment and the tasks made easier as a result – saving an X-ray, sending an e-prescription, automatically billing the insurance company, etc.  There is, however, a greater benefit here, in the form of robust clinical data analytics.  It’s a benefit that a recently launched Boston-based firm aims to help healthcare organizations, a variety of

The EMR software market, as The Health Care Blog recently noted, exemplifies the Long Tail theory quite well:

[A] handful of products are used by many physicians, while hundreds of others are used by very few, and some homegrown EMRs are only used by their creator and maybe friends and family.

We (and countless others) have extolled the virtues of EMR technology as a means of saving money, improving efficiency and meeting the criteria established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s HITECH Act.

However, as two HealthCareIT News articles recently pointed out, there’s another benefit to adopting EMR technology – serving patients that the healthcare system can easily forget.

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