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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...
Study: More providers joining HIEs
While the process is slow, it appears that more healthcare providers are gradually linking up with health information exchanges, according to a new study released by IDC-HII. For example, 15 percent Read more...
CDC grants to help RHIOs share public health data
The CDC has awarded $38 million in contracts to help health information exchanges and regional health information organizations to create data sharing plans used to deliver information to public Read more...
Report: HIEs/RHIOs are states' top HIT priorities
States consider health information exchanges and RHIOs (pick your acronym) to be their top e-health priorities, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. When surveyed in 2007, 25 of 41 of states Read more...
Watch out: Health IT is now a consumer buzzword
I don't know about you, but for me, the pre-HIMSS show excitement is building. I think this should be one of the most vibrant--and overwhelming--shows in the history of HIMSS itself. Why? Well, in Read more...
HIE may work best if starting small
So the VA EMR can't talk to the DoD's system--no surprise, given the gigantic bureaucracies involved. But it's daunting to consider that this is just one flavor of a nationwide problem we're facing Read more...
DEA may allow e-prescribing of controlled substances
Just last week, we took the DEA to task for its apparent resistance to letting physicians prescribe controlled substances electronically. Well, either I misread the situation or they've had a quick Read more...
FL pilots EMR for Medicaid recipients
The state of Florida has begun a pilot test under which it's checking out the idea of rolling out an EMR for all of its Medicaid recipients. The project, which (as far as we know at FierceHealthIT) Read more...
Report: Local RHIOs aren't likely to become national
A new report suggests that despite its popularity, the dominant model for developing a national health information network may not be working. The report, from the Information Technology and Read more...
National health networking: It takes a government
Last week, the federal government handed out $22.5 million in contracts to nine health information exchanges, whose job will now be to run trial implementations of the National Health Information Read more...
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