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Coalition wants e-prescribing included in Medicare reform
A coalition of 44 healthcare industry organizations have come together to ask Congress to to include e-prescribing mandates in Medicare reform legislation. The members want legislators to adopt the Read more...
ALSO NOTED: HIT execs want data security standards; AT&T, Tennessee create health data exchange; and much more...
> A new survey concludes that HIT execs would like to see the industry adopt a uniform way for verifying healthcare data security. Read more...
Report: HIEs/RHIOs are states' top HIT priorities
States consider health information exchanges and RHIOs (pick your acronym) to be their top e-health priorities, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. When surveyed in 2007, 25 of 41 of states Read more...
BCBS of MA plan requires hospitals to use CPOE
Hospitals participating in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will soon be required to used computerized physician order entry under the insurer's new incentive plan. Under the health plan's Read more...
FCC offers $400 million to connect providers with NHIN
The Federal Communications Commission has set final plans to spend more than $400 million over the next there years to connect up providers with the up-and-coming National Health Information Network Read more...
Report: Local RHIOs aren't likely to become national
A new report suggests that despite its popularity, the dominant model for developing a national health information network may not be working. The report, from the Information Technology and Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Building on French data exchange success
To date, here in the U.S., health data sharing efforts aren't very robust or widespread--and certainly, we have nothing like a national health data exchange in place yet. However, that's not the case Read more...
Trend: Momentum builds for e-prescribing tech
E-prescribing continues to be popular with state and federal officials, with a growing number either funding new initiatives or demanding that affiliated physicians get on board. Among the most Read more...
Study: RHIOs/HIEs backed by states will win
UPDATED 5/7/08 For the RHIO/HIE movement to really explode, it will take help from states, according to a new consulting firm study. The IDC Research company Health Industry Insights study looked at Read more...
Net firms say 'net neutrality' could harm HIEs
As most FierceHealthIT readers know, a battle has been raging for years over whether Congress should make a law guaranteeing "net neutrality," equal transport over the Internet regardless of Read more...
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