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  3. About Harvard

    Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is also the first and oldest corporation in North America.

    Initially called "New College" or "the college at New Towne", the institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after a young clergyman named John Harvard, a graduate of England's Emmanuel College, Cambridge (a college of the University of Cambridge) and St Olave's Grammar School, Orpington in the UK, bequeathed the College his library of four hundred books and half his personal wealth, $1,500 or seven hundred fifty pounds sterling. The earliest known official reference to Harvard as a "university" occurs in the new Massachusetts Constitution of 1780.

    During his forty year tenure as Harvard president, Charles William Eliot radically transformed Harvard into the pattern of the modern research university. Eliot's reforms included elective courses, small classes, and entrance examinations. The Harvard model influenced American education nationally, at both college and secondary levels. Eliot also was responsible for publication of the now-famous "Harvard Classics", a collection of "great books" from multiple disciplines published by P. F. Collier and Sons beginning in 1909 that offered a college education "in fifteen minutes a day of reading"; the collection soon became known as "Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf". During his unprecedentedly influential presidency, Eliot, a prolific book and magazine writer and widely traveled speaker in the pre-radio age, became so widely recognized a public figure that by his death in 1926 his name (and, not coincidentally, Harvard's) had become synonymous with the universal aspirations of American higher education.

    In 1999, Radcliffe College, founded in 1879 as the "Harvard Annex for Women", merged formally with Harvard University, becoming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    Harvard's library collection contains more than 15 million volumes, making it the largest academic library in the world, and the fourth among the five "mega-libraries" of the world (after the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the French Bibliothèque nationale, but ahead of the New York Public Library). Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any non-profit organization except for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, standing at $34.9 billion as of 2007.

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    2. Accepting the Inevitable, U.S. Hospitals Significantly Ramp Up Use of Electronic Health Records, Finds Frost & Sullivan

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      MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Harvard researchers, as of 2009, it was estimated that approximately 90 percent of U.S. hospitals had imple... (Read Full Article)

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      ...ral Hospital--left his Office of National Coordinator job in April to return to his tenured post at Harvard. InformationWeek Healthcare senior writer Marianne Kolbasuk McGee caught up with Blumenthal at the ... (Read Full Article)

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      ...sing key strategic issues facing the market MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 17, 2011 – According to Harvard researchers, as of 2009, it was estimated that approximately 90 percent of U.S. hospitals had imple... (Read Full Article)

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      ... compared to a nonprofit hospital's offerings, he said. However, Beth Israel Deaconess' status as a Harvard University medical school hospital gives him an edge over private companies. "There is some reputat... (Read Full Article)

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    8. RHIOs struggling to meet Meaningful Use

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      ...ul Use, according to a study appearing this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. For the study, Harvard researchers received responses from 179 out of 197 potential RHIOs in 2009. The organizations are b... (Read Full Article)

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      Amazon adds identity management to Web console ... too long ago when mega-social-network Facebook was only an experimental service used by a group of Harvard students. And Twitter was just a ... By: ComputerWorld Canada staff (5/6/2011 9:24:00 AM)Our video ... (Read Full Article)

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    10. Blumenthal To Step Down as National Health IT Coordinator

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      ...r Health IT David Blumenthal will resign in the spring to return to his tenured faculty position at Harvard Medical School, Kaiser Health News reports. Blumenthal was appointed by President Obama in March 20... (Read Full Article)

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    11. Next generation of EMRs may include personal genomics

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