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ONC to outsource HIT program assessment and management
While HHS was releasing its proposed "meaningful use" rules to much fanfare and many people had already checked out for the year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information... Read more...
HHS hints at possible 'meaningful use' changes
With the first full week of 2010 now behind us, it's becoming clear that the proposed "meaningful use" regulations published Dec. 30 indeed merely represent a proposal, and that the final rules... Read more...
National leadership for health IT
The health IT community was rather stunned when President George W. Bush dropped this one line into his 2004 State of the Union address: "By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous... Read more...
Feds move up timetable for extension centers, announce HIT grant programs
As the health IT community waits for CMS to issue its definition of meaningful use, others within HHS and the Obama administration have been busy handing out health IT dollars from the federal... Read more...
Academic, community health centers work to shape health IT
A group representing about 40 hospitals and 13,000 beds has come together in a lobbying coalition to help shape discussions on the health IT provisions of the federal stimulus package. The Academic... Read more...
Google, Microsoft ask government to give web more weight in health IT plans
Lord knows, the federal government is dishing out money and attention to health IT vendors already. But according to Microsoft and Google, Obama administration officials haven't spent enough time... Read more...
ONCHIT plans medical identity theft town hall
Medical identity theft is quickly becoming one of the biggest security threats a health IT administrator needs to consider, given the rich trove of personal data medical records typically include.... Read more...
HIT leaders defend private federal plans
Health industry executives are often critical of what the government does, particularly when it involves their income. But in this case, apparently, things are a bit different. Health IT industry... Read more...
HHS awards contract for medical identity fraud study
HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded a $450,000 conract to Booz Allen Hamilton to scope out the size of the medical identity theft problem in the... Read more...
