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Maine's Medical Network Partners with athenahealth, Inc.

The Earth Times is reporting that Medical Network, Inc. of Maine is teaming with athenahealth, Inc. offer MedNet providers access to athenahealth EHRs.
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Rural Florida to Expand Broadband and HIE

According to Tallahassee.com rural Florida hospitals are using grants to install broadband service to connect the hospitals via the Health Information Exchange.
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QTool by ACS Brings Alabama Medicaid Closer to EHR

According to MSN Money Central Qtool by Affiliated Computer Services will bring the Alabama Medicaid system one step closer to electronic health records  
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Report Lists Top IT Challenges in Wireless Healthcare

According to the Earth Times HIMSS Analytics has released a report on the top challenges faced by IT when implementing wireless applications for healthcare  
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Maryland Pass Legislation to Use Stimulus Funds for EHR

According to the Washington Business Journal the State of Maryland has enacted legislation to allow the state to use federal stimulus dollars for electronic health record programs including forming a health information exchange
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Kaiser Permanente Patients Carry Medical Records on Flashdrives

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Kaiser Permanente in California allows patients to purchase flash drives that contain their medical records.
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Healthcare IT Vendors form EHR Alliance

According to Cnet Healthcare IT Vendors Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix and Dell along with several others have formed the EHR Stimulus Alliance to encourage physicians to switch to electronic health records.
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Quest Diagnostic Partners with Microsoft HealthVault

The Earth Times is reporting that Quest Diagnostics will allow patients and physicians to share lab test reports via Microsoft HealthVault.
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Meaningfuluse.org Gives Physicians a Place to Discuss Healthcare IT

Medicexchange is reporting that Compuware has teamed up with the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems to form the website www.meaningfuluse.org.
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