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Unifying Health IT Bill Filed in Senate
The long-anticipated Clinton-Frist health IT bill has been filed in the Senate. It is similar to a bill introduced…
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Half Billion Dollars a Year Proposed for Health IT
New legislation proposes awarding a half billion dollars a year for health IT—half in grants, half in loans. The…
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Studies Find X-Rays Just as Accurate as Digital Mammography
Three studies on several thousand women have demonstrated that X-ray images are just as accurate as so-called digital mammograms,…
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Hospitals Face Tricky Hardware Decisions
The grand vision of health information technology is that electronic tools will help banish medical mistakes, boost the effectiveness…
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HHS Launches Health IT Collaborative
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced Monday the formation of a “national collaboration” to create a technical…
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Virtual Cells Could Speed Drug Discovery
Using programs developed to simulate stock markets and warfare, researchers at the University of Chicago have developed software to…
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Medicare Database Could Track Drug Safety
Medicare should combine billing data from its prescription drug program with information collected when Medicare users submit claims for…