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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...
Health IT standards development likely to speed up
With some core data already defined, it's looking like the pace of health IT standards development is likely to pick up. According to John Halamka, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Read more...
NIH security breach includes data on U.S. Rep
Now this must be a little embarrassing for officials at NIH. As it turns out, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) was one of 3,000 patients involved in a cardiac MRI study whose records were possibly lost when a Read more...
$105M awarded for statewide EMR system in NY
For the state of New York, it looks like the future is now. The state's Department of Health recently awarded 19 healthcare information technology projects $105 million in grant money in order to Read more...
ALSO NOTED: ACOP develops IT for "medical homes"; Harris gets NHIN gateway contract; and much more...
> The American College of Physicians has gotten a $50,000 grant that it plans to use to develop physician IT tools in order to support the development of the "medical home" model. Read more...
ALSO NOTED: ACOP develops IT for "medical homes"; Harris gets NHIN gateway contract; and much more...
> The American College of Physicians has gotten a $50,000 grant that it plans to use to develop physician IT tools in order to support the development of the "medical home" model. Read more...
Clinical IT leads to security neglect at hospitals
This week's piece from Network World points to a troubling problem--that hospitals are in crosshairs these days when it comes to cyberattacks and other forms of black-hat hacking. Given the growing Read more...
HHS plans surprise HIPAA audits
According to survey data released at HIMSS last week, 25 percent of hospitals surveyed had seen a security breach within the past year. Even worse, research firm SecureWorks has seen an 85 percent Read more...
CCHIT invites vendors to apply for EMR pilot
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has begun inviting electronic medical record vendors to apply for participation in the pilot test for its EMR certification Read more...
HHS moves ahead with $150M EMR plan
Following up on a promise made last year, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has officially proposed a $150 Read more...
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