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NewsFederal agencies to go on a $6.5B health IT spending binge
Federal agencies will spend $6.5 billion on their own health IT needs in 2016, up from $4.5 billion in 2011, according to a new report from Deltek, a government IT contractor that operates a research Read more...
VA's EMR management problem part of larger health IT failure
It's bad enough that the VA has spent millions on its HealtheVet EHR project and hasn't finished it out properly. According to the agency's Inspector General, that failure is just one part of a Read more...
HIMSS report: $25 billion stimulus needed to help speed EMR adoption
It's become pretty clear that President-Elect Obama thinks the best kind of economic stimulus is one that also creates lasting jobs, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Read more...
DOD, VA move to SOA architecture to build interoperable systems
After struggling for years to bring their clinical databases together, the Department of Defense and the Veterans Affairs department have decided to move their EMR systems over to a service-oriented Read more...
Social Security wants EMR access for disability determination
Here's something novel--a proposal that might push the private sector healthcare industry further into the future while improving a government agency's efficiency. The Social Security Administration Read more...
National EMR adoption could cost $150B
How much will it cost to roll out and fully implement EMRs in all U.S. physicians' offices and hospitals? A whopping $150 billion spread over the next eight years, according to one health economics Read more...
Should EMRs offer research capabilities?
Maybe it sounds like a crazy question, but how do you use your EMR system? Are you dedicating it entirely to supporting direct patient care, or do you expect to use it to conduct research, too? I Read more...
Study: 75 percent of states developing HIEs
A new study has concluded that three-quarters of states have begun developing some form of HIE. The study, released by the State-Level HIE Consensus Project, found that while many projects are on Read more...
States show growing interest in health IT
A new study suggests that state interest in health IT investment has been mounting steadily in recent times. In fact, health IT projects are high on many state governors' agendas, according to a new Read more...
HIT terms becoming more defined
Do you know the difference between an e-medical record and an e-health record? Health IT professionals are banking on an answer of "no," which is why there now is more of a push to give more "precise Read more...
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