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  • EHR changes are more than skin deep

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 30, 2010, 6:26am PDT

    The gains of EHRs have yet to come to my doctor’s office, but business change is already here, and we’ll see about the rest in time.

  • Mainstream vendors do not have to buy to take over health IT

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 29, 2010, 5:58am PDT

    Major IT players are getting into health IT in many ways, including simple distribution.

  • Aetna-CVS deal shows strains in insurance-pharmacist relationship

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 29, 2010, 5:10am PDT

    The deal takes the IT and fulfillment sides of Pharmacy Benefit Plans away from the insurer and gives them to the pharmacist.

  • Software Freedom's latest target is medical devices

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 28, 2010, 5:34am PDT

    Heart disease patients like Dick Cheney are vulnerable to buggy software and hack-attacks aimed straight at the devices implanted near their hearts. Open source could offer hope.

  • FCC and FDA will knock heads together on wireless medicine

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 27, 2010, 7:46am PDT

    What will follow will be a series of negotiations among the parties, aimed at finding a solution both military and civilian planners can accept, then a rule-making that could be complete in about...

  • MedFusion relaunched as part of IntuitHealth

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 26, 2010, 7:53am PDT

    It’s another example of just how mainstream IT companies are moving into health care with offerings that do much more than health care specialists have been able to do before, just as growth...

  • UnitedHealth wants to be Kaiser

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 23, 2010, 4:45am PDT

    What the company seems to be building is a software suite that will help it see, and reduce, the real costs of using hospitals.

  • Ingenix bets on intensive care with Picis buy

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 22, 2010, 10:36am PDT

    Ingenix, a consultant to doctors and hospitals, bought Picis, whose software focuses on “high-acuity” areas of the hospital space — places like emergency rooms, surgical suites,...

  • HealthIT boom showing on bottom lines

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 22, 2010, 7:21am PDT

    Meaningful use is already fattening the bottom lines of companies like Allscripts-Misys, where profit for the last quarter was up 17%.

  • HealthIT gets FCC broadband subsidy

    By Dana Blankenhorn | July 21, 2010, 6:55am PDT

    The agency’s hope is that the subsidy will encourage new services and ultimately cut the cost of care in rural areas. The money would help subsidize creation of public and non-profit...

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