Electronic Health Records (EHRs) news from FierceHealthIT
NewsAllscripts contest aims to create EHR-agnostic CDS tool
Allscripts has launched a Million Hearts Initiative Clinical Decision Support Challenge, aligned with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Million Hearts campaign to prevent 1 million Read more...
AMA lobbies for ICD-10 delay
The American Medical Association has sent a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner asking his help in halting the implementation of the ICD-10 coding system, reported The Hill's Healthwatch and Read more...
Construction of countywide EHR part of larger national IT program
A project to deliver healthcare and social services more cost-effectively to a Medicaid population will seek to build a countywide electronic health record in Minneapolis, according to an article in Read more...
Physicians get partial reprieve on CMS e-prescribing penalties
Doctors who failed to do a minimum amount of electronic prescribing in the first half of 2011 will lose 1 percent of their Medicare reimbursement in 2012 if they do not qualify for an exemption. Read more...
Berwick: Health IT will be a "core competency" of ACOs
The proposed government regulations on accountable care organizations create a host of new opportunities and challenges for health IT vendors and professionals. First and foremost, health IT will be Read more...
Surescripts will test, approve EHR modules
Suresripts has been named by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as the sixth organization that can test and approve certain electronic health records modules Read more...
OIG eyes 2011 health IT initiatives
With new changes ahead with health information technology in the Medicare and Medicare programs, the Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced its intention in its Read more...
Blumenthal: Health IT is key to health reform
It's been a busy year in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and for health IT in general. "It's been a whirlwind of activity. Many of you have spent many Read more...
Health IT still far from its potential
A couple of weeks ago, we referenced both the 1991 Institute of Medicine report, "The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care" and President George W. Bush's 2004 call Read more...
CIOs cautiously optimistic about Stage 1 'meaningful use'
So far, so good when it comes to preparing to meet "meaningful use" requirements, say the majority of hospital CIOs in an informal poll. Many, however, also are worried that vendors are using the Read more...
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