ARRA news from FierceHealthIT
NewsPatient privacy concerns loom large as providers shift to the cloud
The cloud is all the rage today, and healthcare providers are storing personal health information (PHI) on remote servers for an increasing variety of purposes. In a commentary on iHealthBeat, Read more...
Microsoft's Ballmer: Focus on the patient for long-term gains
It's not exactly a secret that various technology companies stand to profit handsomely from the estimated $20 billion infusion of federal dollars into electronic medical records. In jockeying for Read more...
Healthcare may help IT industry reverse job losses
The IT industry has been reeling, having cut a net 175,000 jobs in 2009, or about 13.2 percent of all announced U.S. job cuts across all industries last year. The decline is more than 12 percent Read more...
McKesson CIO: Health reform impossible without better information
Expanding access to care and holding down insurance costs are nice, but, as we've been saying for months, there can't be real healthcare reform in America without addressing the problems of Read more...
ONC to outsource HIT program assessment and management
While HHS was releasing its proposed "meaningful use" rules to much fanfare and many people had already checked out for the year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Read more...
HHS hints at possible 'meaningful use' changes
With the first full week of 2010 now behind us, it's becoming clear that the proposed "meaningful use" regulations published Dec. 30 indeed merely represent a proposal, and that the final rules Read more...
Research group concerned new HIPAA regs could hinder clinical trials
The new HIPAA privacy and security regulations set to take effect next month may hinder clinical trials as researchers adapt to tighter restrictions on the use of patient data, the head of a key Read more...
HIPAA regulations
Nothing has had more bearing on health IT throughout the '00s than Title II of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, otherwise known as the administrative simplification Read more...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
We waited years for the federal government to do more than talk--and occasionally sponsor a pilot or demonstration program--about health IT. Annually from 2004 through 2008, various members of Read more...
Feds move up timetable for extension centers, announce HIT grant programs
As the health IT community waits for CMS to issue its definition of meaningful use, others within HHS and the Obama administration have been busy handing out health IT dollars from the federal Read more...
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