NHIN Watch reports that Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital to continue it’s ongoing implementation of a community-wide electronic health record system (EHR). Read more...

Healthcare IT News reports that the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems will offer its members the ability to participate in the Universal Credentialing Datasource online service. Read more...

If you do not currently have e-prescription software on your PDA, you might want to consider adding it. First and foremost, this software is a valuable time saver. A survey by Epocrates indicated that physicians could save up to 30 minutes a day, simply by using their PDA for drug reference information alone. Now consider how much additional time could be saved by using the PDA not only to reference the drug information, but to write the prescription. Read more...