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During UC Irvine's White Coat Ceremony on Friday each member of the School of Medicine's incoming class of 2015 will receive an iPad as part of its initiative to provide students with a digital medical education.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is hosting the Sixth Annual National Health IT Week Sept. 12-16, 2011 in Washington, DC.HIMSS officials bill the event as "a collaborative forum, where public and private healthcare constituents can work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the U.S. healthcare system."

Partners HealthCare Systems is providing clinicians throughout its integrated delivery network with mobile access to its electronic health record - a rollout the system achieved in 90 days.Partners' technology experts say the InterSystems platform, which serves a foundation for the Partners Healthcare EHR and for hundreds of clinical applications used by thousands of clinicians throughout the network, made it possible.