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NewsCMS releases Stage 2 Meaningful Use proposals
Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) today announced the proposed requirements for Stage 2 Meaningful Read more...
ONC to launch five-year survey on EHR privacy
Officials with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT want to know what the public thinks about electronic health record security and privacy. To that end, it will launch a survey of Read more...
Sebelius touts increased EHR use, no mention of Stage 2 MU
A lot of folks in the health IT community probably were disappointed today when Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, failed to announce the notice of Read more...
VA budget recommendation includes allocation for DoD-integrated EHR
Roughly $2 billion of the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs' $3.3 billion IT budget, proposed this week, would be allocated toward healthcare systems, according to an article in Nextgov. Overall, Read more...
Proposed federal budget increases ONC spend to $66M
Spending for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2013 budget increases $5 million, bring the total up to more than $66 million. That Read more...
Measuring ROI key to EHR success, adoption
Measuring a return on investment for electronic health record systems is not just key to showing the project paid off, it also can be critical to the project's success and adoption, experts say. But Read more...
CPOE reduces preventable adverse drug events
Despite one recent study's findings that electronic health records are lacking in adverse drug event (ADE) detection, another study on computerized physician order entry systems came to the opposite Read more...
Early ACO adopters reveal key IT lessons
The intrepid hospital and physician office pioneers leading the charge toward accountable care organizations have learned some key lessons about IT--its role, its limitations and its challenges. A Read more...
Bipartisan center calls for increased HIE efforts, alignment of healthcare incentives
Aligning financial incentives with high-quality care and accelerating health information exchange efforts (HIE) were among several key recommendations made in a new report released this morning by Read more...
Survey: IT key to increased confidence of small practices
Technology appears to have played a large part in increased confidence among a majority of small practices, if a new report from electronic health record vendor Practice Fusion is any indication. Read more...
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