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Worried that you won't have enough IT staff to complete an EMR implementation toward achieving "meaningful use," or perhaps making the conversion to ICD-10 coding? National health IT coordinator Dr. Read more...

The Military Health System has a mature, well-developed EMR, but it's still not as comprehensive as some in the Pentagon would like it to be. Some ancillary IT systems aren't integrated with the main Read more...

Last week, we heard optimism from the likes of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the College of Health Information Management Executives about the prospects of healthcare Read more...

The healthcare industry will need at least 50,000 new health information management professionals to support the transition to electronic health records, national health IT coordinator Dr. David Read more...

The lineup of keynote speakers at the 2009 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit reflects the changing times in health IT. A late addition to the agenda is Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's Read more...

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is throwing its weight behind the PHR concept. AHIMA has set up a website, myPHR.com, selling Read more...

I doubt anyone reading FierceHealthIT objects to the idea of federal subsidies for EMR adoption. After all, if legislators want to see broad EMR use, offering grants, loans or expanded tax advantages for EMR …

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SAP and Microsoft have struck an agreement to expand their Duet platform to offer two new versions, a move the two companies say should offer new options for health information management. The two vendors worked together to create Duet, which lets users access SAP data through Microsoft Office. The software allows users to perform many types of common transactions, including travel management, purchasing and scheduling, already resident within SAP. The interface could also support …

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Over time, the American Health Information Management Association has thrown its weight behind the development of personal health records, calling them "a key element in the U.S. transformation to a safe, more efficient, consumer-driven healthcare system." But at least one professional critic, the founder of the Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, has taken exception to this stance, arguing that there are gaping holes in PHR …

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> The American Health Information Management Association is planning a new certification offering which will offer credentials for vendors in the healthcare privacy and security arena. Article (Modern Healthcare sub. req.)

> Think you can breeze through the National Provider Identifier rollout? Don't be fooled. A consultant explains just how …

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