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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...
Study: State and local government spending on health IT to climb
State and local governments are expecting to see a huge uptick in health IT spending over the next five years, driven largely by the influx of money coming in from federal stimulus funding. According... Read more...
NY state's HIT programs good model for federal efforts, researchers say
A new study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College concludes that health IT programs in place in New York could serve as models for federal efforts. Currently, New York has allocated about... Read more...
Michigan Medical Society offers health IT portal
In an unusual move, the Michigan State Medical Society is going one step further than most medical societies: instead of just advocating health IT adoption, it is providing a system to its members,... Read more...
New HIE to span 12 European countries
Here at FierceHealthIT, we usually report on projects taking place in the United States, but this one was so large, we couldn't resist giving you an update. With support from the European Commission,... Read more...
Trend: Hospitals, health systems building their own networks
For years now, hospitals have struggled to create health information exchanges that not only served some broad community purpose, but also hooked up their physicians with their central systems.... Read more...
MI, WI advance health information exchange
Some might call them RHIOs. Others might say collaboration among competitors. Either way, large, multi-stakeholder groups in two Midwest states are coming together to find ways to share healthcare... Read more...
Non-profits wondering how IRS feels about RHIOs
As most readers know, it took what felt like an eternity for the IRS just to come out with it and say how it felt about non-profit hospitals' plans to make EMR donations to physicians. So complex... Read more...
Study: 75 percent of states developing HIEs
A new study has concluded that three-quarters of states have begun developing some form of HIE. The study, released by the State-Level HIE Consensus Project, found that while many projects are on... Read more...
Joint Commission calls for national HIE
Last week, the Joint Commission became the latest healthcare organization to pitch the idea of a single, national infrastructure for sharing data between providers. The group sees such a step as an... Read more...
