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Health Language partners with MEDecision to take advantage of ICD-10

Health Language Inc., which specializes in terminology management, is partnering with MEDecision, which provides payer-based clinical summaries and care gap alerts to doctors. The aim of their

MEDecision launches EHR app for smartphones

MEDecision is pushing the electronic health record all the way out into clinician's hands with a new app for its InFrame product. The new app, available March 30 through Apple's iTunes store, will

HIMSS will look at new, emerging roles of EHRs

Type in "electronic health records" for the HIMSS11 annual conference, Feb. 20-24 in Orlando, and you'll see 69 different sessions--not to mention 23 specifically listed for electronic medical

With EHR security, there's nothing to fear but fear itself

FierceEMR recently reported on a North Carolina State University study that says it isn't necessarily the unwillingness of stakeholders or cost issues that's impeding the proliferation of EHRs, it's

Healthcare may help IT industry reverse job losses

The IT industry has been reeling, having cut a net 175,000 jobs in 2009, or about 13.2 percent of all announced U.S. job cuts across all industries last year. The decline is more than 12 percent

HIE market heats up with state grants, looming EMR deadline

With federal stimulus money--about $546 million funneled into state grants promoting health information exchange projects--illuminating the way, healthcare software vendors are evaluating their

HIE market heats up with state grants, looming EMR deadline

With stimulus money--about $546 million in HITECH for state grants promoting health information exchange projects--illuminating the way, healthcare software vendors are evaluating their offerings to

Digital imaging could be a catalyst for HIE, PHR adoption

Mention health information exchange to Dr. Elliot Menschik and he'll immediately ask a question: "Where's the business model? That's been the Achilles' heel of HIEs." And it has. Whether you call

EMR subsidies might help, but who gains from efficiency savings?

The law of unintended consequences is a nasty little bugger that seems to rear its ugly head quite often in health care. As so many of our dear readers know, the great paradox in health IT,