CDW Healthcare, part of the public sector subsidiary of CDW Corporation and a leading provider of technology products and services to healthcare organizations, has announced the release of the IT Checkup Self-Assessment Tool, a Web-based program which enables hospital IT managers to evaluate their clinical application and IT infrastructure investment and receive an instant score indicating how their healthcare organization compares to averages from across the U.S. The tool is based upon the results of the CDW Healthcare IT Checkup, a national survey of healthcare IT professionals, which CDW Healthcare reported in March.
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Healthcare IT News reports that Covisint will partner with physicians organizations serving southeast Michigan to provide a Health Information Exchange Read more...

Nuance Communications Dragon Medical 10 Software (http://nuance.com) is a medical voice recognition system that recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as its previous release. This newest version has ten new medical vocabularies, and has improved integration with EMR systems. A physician can create medical documents, emails and dictate directly into an EMR system using this voice recognition software. Read more...

Some consider use of a social networking site such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Plurk a fundamental tool for their business. They use it to advertise, connect and collaborate. It is a wonder that anyone has time to keep up with all of them, especially busy doctors. Many professions such as lawyers, marketers and real estate agents have their own dedicated social networking sites. And, believe it or not, so do physicians, sites such as doctorshangout.com , imedexchange.com , and sermo.com are gaining in popularity with physicians. Even the Canadian Medical Association has launched their own physicians networking site, Asklepios. Read more...