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Blue Button builds momentum inside and outside the VA

The Blue Button campaign that enable veterans to download their medical records from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and non-VA providers is exceeding the government's expectations. Half a

Highest paid exec is in healthcare, earns $145M

Healthcare executives are the among the top earners across all industries. In fact, three of the top 10 executives across all industries were in healthcare, according to a new report by research

KLAS: EHR compatibility key for PACS replacements

One out of six large hospitals and health systems are in the market to replace their picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), which will cause a boomlet in an otherwise rather stable

430K veterans press the Blue Button to retrieve health info

More than 430,000 veterans have used the Blue Button of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to download their personal health claims data, according to Todd Park, chief technology officer of the

More EHR consolidation with increased innovation?

While many new vendors are currently jumping into the growing electronic health record market, the number of EHR offerings will shrink in the future as companies merge or acquire each other. That's

Most ED info system vendors can't deliver Meaningful Use for providers

Out of roughly 500 providers surveyed by market research firm KLAS, 80 percent reported that they plan to use their Emergency Department Information Systems (EDIS) to meet the Medicare incentive

Hospitals depend on pharmacy inventory management apps to cut costs

Hospitals increasingly are using pharmacy inventory management software to reduce inventory costs, but many are unsatisfied with the available applications, according to a new report from the KLAS

Consensus report uniting ACOs and medical homes has health IT implications

A new consensus report on how to reform the healthcare delivery system has some important implications for health IT. The report, entitled Better to Best: Value Driving Elements of the Patient

John Hammergren - McKesson (NYSE: MCK)

Total Fiscal 2010 Compensation: $54,584,021 Compensation breakdown: Base salary: $1,580,000 Stock awards: $11,049,424 Option awards: $7,647,826 Non-equity incentive plan compensation:

Community hospitals increasingly look to large EMR vendors

Smaller hospitals increasingly are looking to the big clinical information systems vendors for their EMR and other point-of-care IT needs, mainly because they believe the vendors that have