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The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has recognized clinical informatics as a medical subspecialty, an ABMS spokesperson told FierceHealthIT. The long-awaited elevation of clinical Read more...

The bad news is, everyone's a little antsy while waiting for final rules on "meaningful use" of EMRs. The good news is, HHS seems to be making progress toward defining the term that will determine Read more...

Lest anyone doubt that healthcare is in dire need of connected information systems, Dr. Mark Smith offers this reminder: "You can walk into the hospital where you were born and the first thing they Read more...

Until HHS officially publishes proposed regulations near the end of this year, Dr. David Blumenthal can't talk publicly yet about what "meaningful use" EMRs will look like, but the national Read more...

The American Medical Informatics Association has received a $1.2 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The money is intended to help promote training in health informatics as part Read more...

The American Medical Informatics Association has released a report detailing what health workers should know when working with EMRs. AMIA's goal is take the focus away from higher technical issues Read more...

Home-based telemonitoring of patients with chronic diseases has a great deal of potential, according to a new study published this month in a high-profile health IT journal. To conduct the research, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Canadian researchers reviewed more than 65 studies published in the U.S. and Europe. The studies looked at home-based management of chronic pulmonary conditions, cardiac diseases, diabetes and hypertension …

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A recent study of physician EHR adoption has found that not only price, but also concerns about productivity loss and technical issues are holding back adoption of EHRs within individual physician practices. The study, which was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, surveyed 1,345 Massachusetts physicians to learn what was holding back EHRs adoption in their practices. One the one hand, the EHR adoption rate for individual physicians …

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The American Medical Informatics Association last week issued a report that predicts efforts to access and use health care data for purposes unrelated to patient care are quite likely to grow as EHR adoption increases. Among other things, the report calls for a national framework for secondary uses of health information. As defined by the report, secondary use of health information includes: marketing and other commercial uses; payment; provider certification or accreditation; public …

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