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'Meaningful use' dominated 2010, but so much else has happened in HIT

We're taking our annual publisher's holiday next week, so this is the last issue of FierceHealthIT for 2010. It's been quite a year. Even with the economy mired in a jobless recovery and political

UK, Canada offer cautionary tales about EMR security

The problems and concerns people are having with EMRs are not exclusive to the U.S. Check the "Also Noted" section of today's newsletter and you'll see an item about a Royal College of Nursing survey

Allscripts boss, D.C. reporter say GOP unlikely to roll back HITECH

Just like FierceEMR said last week , a number of people closer to the action than a freelance, telecommuting editor believe the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and big gains in the

De-funding Center for Medicare Innovation would kill best part of reform

A story in FierceHealthcare last week really disturbed me. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as "healthcare reform" and mocked by some as a government takeover of

Election 2010: Don't expect significant changes to HITECH

All this week, editors of the FierceHealthcare family of publications are weighing in on what kind of impact the big Republican wins in Tuesday's midterm election will have on healthcare reform and

Pharmacies sue CVS Caremark over privacy issues

Patient and physician privacy apparently are being compromised in all kinds of ways in Texas. In just the past few days, we've learned that: * The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has