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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 bill…
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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, in…
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Auto-Parts Chain Goes Modern, Stays Frugal
Larry Buresh, the CIO of the 1,138-store CSK auto-parts chain, said he knew that his current store technology was out-of-date…
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7-Eleven’s CIO: Contactless Payment Is Here
Contactless payments—whether they’re made using a fob dangling from a keychain at a gas station, an RFID chip embedded in…
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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 and…
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The Innovation Arms Race
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Innovation by the Numbers
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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 standard…
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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 simulate…
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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 hospital…