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NewsNational 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...
HHS moves ahead with $150M EMR plan
Following up on a promise made last year, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has officially proposed a $150 Read more...
HHS accepts HIT standards, now eligible for safe harbors
After a year of review, HHS has formally recognized a set of health IT standards for laboratory results reporting, public health reporting for biosurveillance and consumer management of their own Read more...
Trend: E-prescribing top HIT issue for 2008
It's looking like e-prescribing is going to be the hottest health IT issue under discussion in 2008, according to a growing list of observers and stakeholders in the industry. For one thing, much Read more...
Senate bill would foster e-prescribing
Despite arguments that e-prescribing is unworkable for physicians at present (see next story), a group of Senators have filed a bill which would foster e-prescribing use. The bill, whose sponsors Read more...
Momentum growing for requiring Medicare e-prescribing
It looks like momentum is growing for Medicare to require physicians to use e-prescribing. The most recent push in that direction came from public-private advisory group American Health Information Read more...
HHS head encourages payers to demand e-prescribing
It's just a blog--but look who's blogging! In a recent post, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has suggested that not only Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: HHS holding back on physician performance data
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has spoken out at length in favor of greater transparency in the healthcare system, and has backed that up by offering performance data on health plans, hospitals, home Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Wal-Mart ponders EMRs for retail clinics; Leavitt checks out HIT in Africa; and much more...
> Rumor Mill: Who will become the EMR vendor of choice for the Read more...
HHS promotes international EMR standardsHHS Secretary Mike Leavitt isn't just jazzed about U.S. EMR adoption--he's now joined an international effort to establish standard clinical terminology for use in EMRs. Here's what's going on (amidst a blizzard of acronyms): The U.S. is now one of nine charter members of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHT-SDO). To kick off its efforts, IHT-SDO is using language developed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), known as the Systematized … Read more... |
