> E-prescribing very well could be the tool that knocks down significant barriers to health information exchange, particularly on the payer side of the equation, according to a WellPoint executive. FierceHealthIT
> Fewer than one in five U.S. physicians are using electronic health records, and just 8.6 percent of those in small, office-based practices have adopted the technology, according to a federally funded survey published in the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine. FierceHealthIT
> A new poll found that Americans want to know whether their physicians are getting gifts or payments from drugmakers. FiercePharma
> Seattle-based Immune Design has raised an impressive $18 million in its first round of venture capital. The vaccine company is developing therapies targeting dendritic cells, which control the human immune response system. FierceBiotech
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