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HL7 and NCI collaborate on clinical trial link to EHRs

Standards organization Health Level Seven International, better known as HL7, is working with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to facilitate the delivery of clinical trial data to clinicians via

Collaborative pushes for EHR data use in clinical research

Electronic health record systems are not designed to generate data for clinical research, and providers engaged in clinical trials may be using a number of different, incompatible EHRs. Yet a

Silicon Valley companies pledge $150M for Stanford hospital

Apparently Conrad Hilton got it right when he tied value to location. Six major Silicon Valley players will donate $150 million to Stanford Hospital & Clinics over the next decade, the hospital

Verizon introduces cloud-based HIE that will standardize data

Despite ongoing concerns with the security of cloud computing, offsite data storage is booming in healthcare, and companies with lots of storage space are jumping into the market. The latest entrant

SPOTLIGHT: Could Google, Microsoft or Oracle corner the EHR market?

Companies like Microsoft, Google and Oracle might someday rule the EHR market, says Hospital Impact's Paul Roemer. Why? Because, following the model of the telecommunications and cable TV industries,

Federal EHR efforts could force vendor, practice consolidation

The federal push for interoperable EHRs could be a "steamroller" that forces yet another round of vendor consolidation and pushes physicians in small practices to join larger groups just to survive,

Partners Healthcare consultant, employees face bribery charges

An IT consultant and two employees of Boston-based Partners Healthcare are facing bribery charges in connection with an alleged scheme under which the employees funneled IT work to a consultant in