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Latest Featured Articles » More Hospitals Adopting Electronic Health Records, According to HIMSS Analytics HIMSS Analytics, a not-for-profit subsidiary of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, has found that more acute care hospitals are using Electronic Health Records (EHR), according to its EMRAM scale. Hospitals in the U.S. are required to fully implement electronic records by 2015 or face penalties. » Savings Likely by Using Generic AIDS Medications, But Will it be as Effective in Treating US Patients? Using a generic medication for HIV-AIDS could save $1 billion a year, but it may not work as well as the brand-name medications, according to a new study. A study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), featured in today's issue of "Annals of Internal Medicine," quotes the hospital's Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who also teaches medicine at Harvard. » Berg Insight: Nearly Three Million Patients Remote Monitored A recently released report form Berg Insight shows that the idea of remote monitoring of hospital patients is catching on worldwide, with fully 2.8 million patients at the end of 2012 under the watchful eyes of a home monitoring service with integrated connectivity. » America's ER Investment Company Announces New Healthcare Development Fund There's no question that the U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing big changes. For starters, there is the biggest: the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was passed by Congress in 2010 and signed into law by President Obama. The ACA, which was put in place to bring down U.S. healthcare costs and provide insurance coverage for more Americans, also contains provisions for moving to electronic health records, raising the accountability for healthcare providers to generate positive outcomes and forbids discrimination due to pre-existing conditions and gender. Top Stories » Supply Chains Moving to the Cloud: FarmaCorp Implements LogFire's Solution at its Distribution Center » Voalte Releases Report on Improving Healthcare Communications » Apps for the Heart » New Study Reveals Issues with Quality Measurement for Electronic Health Records Featured Resources » Healthcare Interpreting Programs: Getting It Approved, Setting It Up, and Ensuring Quality » A Simple and Compliant Solution to the Paper Problem in Healthcare: » Using Interactive Notifications to Improve Patient Care and Business Operations in the Healthcare Industry Advertise With Us Learn more  |  Contact us Become a HealthTechZone columnist! Become a HealthTechZone columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of health technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the HealthTechZone Web site and this newsletter. Contact Erik Linask, group editorial director, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.   Featured Channels » Coordinated Care Management » Health Information Exchange » Medical Hardware » Medical Software

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