While medical conventions encourage their attendees to tweet about the event, many physicians find it hard to accurately convey the information. So reports Reuters.

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A 99-year community institution, the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington provides quality and compassionate rehabilitation and long-term nursing home services to area residents in need.  In fulfillment of its commitment to the community, Hebrew Home is dedicated to utilizing information technology solutions as a means of improving patient satisfaction and speeding the delivery of vital information to its caregiver staff. Read more...

GE Healthcare, a leading vendor of healthcare information technology, has announced an initiative to simplify physician participation in Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). GE Healthcare's Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was selected by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 program. The initiative will streamline quality reporting for Centricity® EMR and Centricity Practice Solution customers that submit for eligible financial incentives through the MQIC registry. Read more...

GE Healthcare IT, a leading provider of healthcare information technology, has announced the general release launch of Centricity® Business version 4.3. This latest version of the GE Healthcare solution for revenue cycle management, patient access and managed care is designed to help drive efficiency and enhance services for academic medical centers, hospitals and hospital networks, and large practices in the United States. The new release is currently live at multiple Centricity Business customer sites. Read more...