Statewise EHR funds by Mississippi Medicaid

Medicaid’s Mississippi Division has awarded a four-year contract worth $8 million to Shared Health, Inc., to build and operate a statewide electronic health record (EHR).

EMR good for maintaining health related information

For unleashing boom in health market, especially in electronic patient record – which is made up of electronic medical records (EMR)and electronic health records(EHR), IDC believes NBN is important.

EHR vs EMR Whats the Difference? : Houston Neal, Director, Business Development Software Advice

[This article was published in the March 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

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US sets out privacy guidelines for EHRs

The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on providing citizens with the ability to choose how far they want to share information.

A ‘Tipping Point’ Year For Health Care IT, Says HHS

Health-care providers of all stripes face a host of technology challenges in the new year. Indeed, “the tea leaves are not settled at the bottom of the cup yet, but [providers] are already expected to budget for 2009, 2010 and beyond,” said Bob Booz, managing vice president for Gartner Research, at a kick-off town hall at Everything Channel’s Healthcare Summit in San Diego.

Byrraju Foundation & Satyam provides healthcare to remote areas

Satyam Computer Services Ltd recently announced that its global healthcare practice, working with the Byrraju Foundation, has implemented a program to provide tele-electrocardiograms (ECGs) to patients in remote areas of the country who would otherwise have no access to such care.