Most Popular Stories
- Hospitals lose reimbursement for 'unnecessary' ER visits
- Healthcare jobs will grow the fastest of all industries
- Hospital exec arrested in $116M Medicare scheme
- Online tools, social media ease clinical recruiting, research
- Medicaid cuts loom despite overdue reimbursements
- Docs not always honest with patients
Featured Jobs
-
ICD-10 Revenue Cycle, Manager
Meditology Services - Atlanta, GA -
Electronic Health Records Application Support Manager RN-New Year New Career
Avanti on behalf of Respected Health System - San Francisco, CA -
Epic Ambulatory Beacon Consultant
Meditology Services - NC
Events
- From IHI: The Patient Experience Seminar
March 27-28 — Boston, MA - ICD-10 Reality Check - Breakfast Panel at HiMSS 2012!
February 22, 2012 - CIO Healthcare Summit
March 11-14 — Scottsdale, AZ - Medicare Risk Adjusted Revenue and Plan Payments
April 12 - 13, 2012 — Baltimore, MD
Paid Research Reports
- Electronic health records: getting it right first time
- Cloud Computing Adoption In The APAC Life Sciences Industry
- Stakeholder Opinions: Ophthalmology - Leading brands under threat
- Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics in Diagnostics: Market landscape, innovative technologies and future outlook
- Healthcare Regulatory Update: The United Arab Emirates
- Point of Care Testing: Evaluating the return to evidence based medicine, novel technologies and the competitive landscape
Latest News
Free Newsletter
FierceHealthIT is the leading source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas. Join 44,00 healthcare industry insiders who get FierceHealthIT via daily email for their must know IT news. Sign up today!
About | View Sample | Privacy
Top Tags
Whitepapers
- Solutions for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance
- 7 Things to Look for in a Chemical Analysis Expert Witness
- Drug Compare: Actionable Comparative Effectiveness Research
- An Option for the Ages: The FHA/HUD Hospital Mortgage Insurance Program
- Invaluable insight led us to $2.5 million in savings in less than one-year
- Sustainable Operations in Healthcare; an Energy Management Program
CEOs urge laws offering EMR incentives
While government officials have been pressuring providers to adopt EMRs for years, healthcare buyers haven't taken as strong of a public stand. Last week, however, some of the top CEOs in the U.S. spoke up to say that they believe EMRs should be among Congress's top priorities in the coming months. At a Capitol Hill briefing, members of the Business Roundtable, a group of about 160 CEOs of top U.S. companies, supported legislation that would offer incentives to providers for adopting EMRs. Article
Related Stories
- HIMSS urges Congress: Create a national patient identifier
- SPOTLIGHT: A tip on getting that Medicare EMR bonus
- Health IT stimulus includes Medicare EMR incentives
- Obama announces plan for electronic health records for everyone
- Study: Doctors fear how gov't will use EMRs
- HIT shortage can only get worse
- Senate approves HIT fund
- Groups say IT changes must be part of national reform
- HHS moves ahead with $150M EMR plan
- Group wants higher payments for MDs with EMRs
Home
| Subscribe | Advertise | Mobile Edition | RSS |
Privacy
| Site Map
| Editors | List in Marketplace | Supplier in MarketplaceTHE FIERCEMARKETS NETWORKFierceEnergy | FierceSmartGrid | FierceFinance | FierceFinanceIT | FierceComplianceIT | FierceHealthcare | FierceHealthFinance | FierceHealthIT | Hospital Impact | FierceMobileHealthcare | FierceHealthPayer | FiercePracticeManagement | FierceEMR | FierceCIO | FierceCIO:TechWatch | FierceContentManagement | FierceMobileIT | FierceGovernmentIT | FierceGovernment | FierceHomelandSecurity | FierceBiotech | FierceBiotech Research | FiercePharma | FierceVaccines | FierceBiotechIT | FiercePharma Manufacturing | FierceMedicalDevices | FierceDrugDelivery | FierceIPTV | FierceOnlineVideo | FierceTelecom | FierceEnterpriseCommunications | FierceBroadbandWireless | FierceDeveloper | FierceMobileContent | FierceWireless | FierceWireless:Europe | FierceCable© 2011 FierceMarkets. All rights reserved. |
![]() |
