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Survey: 85 percent of HIT professionals planning EHR implementation by end of 2011
Clinical information technology has arrived. According to a newly released report from San Francisco-based Embarcadero Technologies, EHR implementation is the top priority of health IT professionals,
Portals see high usage, while untethered PHRs may compromise safety
Whenever I get a pitch about personal health records, I immediately ask if the publicist has any evidence that people are using the product in question. I rarely get a response because I know that in
VA wants patient kiosks to fill in gaps in mental health records
Another week, another plan to expand the capabilities of VistA at the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is soliciting bids to develop a kiosk-based system for patients at mental health
Integrating images into PHRs often requires complex work-arounds
Lack of vendor support for the complex task of integrating radiology images into personal health records may be holding back wider health information exchange, if the experience of one German
HL7 finalizes standard for EHRs in clinical research
Health Level Seven has published the health IT industry's first ANSI-approved standard for using EHR information in clinical research. The standard--known as Electronic Health Record Clinical
SPOTLIGHT: Semantic interoperability
Attention EMR developers and integrators: Interoperability comes in three flavors. There's technical interoperability, computable semantic interoperability and process interoperability. The semantic
HL7 vote seeks to standardize EHR quality reporting
Get ready to learn yet another acronym: HQMF. The National Quality Forum and several health IT organizations are asking stakeholders to vote on a draft Health Level Seven standard for EHR-enabled
