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Practice Fusion touts growth of 'free' EMR

You've no doubt heard of Practice Fusion by now. That's the San Francisco vendor that provides a free, advertising-supported EMR to a roster of physicians that the company says numbers 43,000. But

SPOTLIGHT: Nothing more authentic and scalable than open source

According to Will Schroeder, CEO of open-source software developer Kitware, open source creates an agile, high-quality software process and can be everyone's secret weapon. "While there are a lot of

Report: EMRs will drive HIT boom through 2013

Here's some news that should surprise no one: We're in an unprecedented boom in health IT, thanks mostly to growth in the EMR/EHR sector. Indeed, a new report from Scientia Advisors says health IT is

Is VistA a viable replacement for paper records?

How is it possible that only 1.5 percent of hospitals in the United States have gone paperless? Furthermore, how is it possible that West Virginia--which is not exactly a financial or technological

IBM, Google to stream device data to PHRs

Google has teamed up with IBM to add new technology to its PHR that will automatically import data from medical devices. The new feature uses software IBM created, and guidelines from Continua Health