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May 5, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> It looks like information on some 6,000 patients at the University of California San Francisco was accessible via the Internet for more than three months last year. Read more...

Study: More providers joining HIEs

April 21, 2008 — 6:59am ET
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

March 17, 2008 — 7:59am ET
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...

E-prescribing highlights barriers to data sharing

December 10, 2007 — 7:59am ET
Of late, the volume of noise on the e-prescribing front has gotten steadily louder, with calls on all sides for rules that will encourage (or force) e-prescribing technology use. Now, with a new... Read more...

More momentum for connected providers

November 19, 2007 — 7:59am ET
Much interesting going on in health IT news this week, most of which pertains, one way or another, to connecting up disparate providers across networks. While many of these developments are... Read more...

FCC offers $400 million to connect providers with NHIN

November 19, 2007 — 7:59am ET
The Federal Communications Commission has set final plans to spend more than $400 million over the next there years to connect up providers with the up-and-coming National Health Information Network... Read more...

Report: Local RHIOs aren't likely to become national

November 12, 2007 — 7:59am ET
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...

NPI hard deadline moved up five months

October 15, 2007 — 6:59am ET
Until now, hospitals and other healthcare organizations thought they had until May 23, 2008 to implemented the National Provider Identifier (NPI) scheme for Medicare claims--but they were wrong. CMS... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Consumers fear privacy breaches with EMR networks; More e-prescribing options in NH; and much more...

October 15, 2007 — 6:59am ET
> Consumers are still worried that their personal health data won't be safe if it's accessible via a national health information network. Read more...

National health networking: It takes a government

October 8, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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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