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Blumenthal: Health IT is key to health reform

It's been a busy year in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and for health IT in general. "It's been a whirlwind of activity. Many of you have spent many

ONC pilots to seek HIE breakthroughs

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is offering 10 grants worth a total of $16.3 million for state-designated health information exchanges to develop replicable

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

It's OK if RECs create a 'Tower of Babel' at first

While Hospital Impact blogger and health IT consultant Joseph Ingemi has been concerned that regional extension centers could add another layer of bureaucracy in EHR adoption, CIOs have been more

Wisconsin governor creates statewide HIE

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle this week signed into law a bill establishing a statewide network for health information exchange. The bill puts into use $9.4 million in HIE money the state received from

Reform law requires electronic enrollment for federal, state health programs

Details of the massive health insurance reform law continue to trickle out, and some even pertain to health IT. Health Data Management has discovered that one section of the Patient Protection and

HHS completes state HIE grant awards

HHS has completed the awarding of state grants for health information exchange under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by designating a final group 16 states and state-designated entities to