A computer system, which cost the state of Texas more than $350 millionduring the past eight years, is not currently ready to handle statewideprocessing of health and welfare benefits, said the state auditor'soffice in a recently published report, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology(CCHIT) has announced that six EHR products, designed for use in acutecare hospitals, have been given CCHIT certified status after undergoinginspections that demonstrated 100 percent compliance with thecommission’s published criteria.

This month, the Army and Air Force reported they have completed thelargest training and equipping effort of Medical Communications forCombat Casualty Care (MC4), digital medical recording systems, to date.

Eclipsys reported strong financial results for its fiscal 2007 thirdquarter (end-Sept. 30), showing an upturn in revenues and income.

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Royal Philips Electronics on Friday said it intends to proceed with thesale of its 70 percent stake in MedQuist, the U.S. medicaltranscription and billing services company.

Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland has asked the Maryland Health CareCommission to accelerate its development efforts for a statewide healthinformation exchange.

Medsphere Systems has released Strongwind, a code for a user interfacetest automation framework that enables developers to create automatedquality assurance scripts to test features of user interfaceapplications.