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NewsStudy: 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...
Social Security budgets $24M to exchange health data with hospitals, HIEs
The Social Security Administration has set aside $24 million to expand a program under which it contracts with hospitals and health information exchanges willing to electronically share electronic Read more...
Study: Number of HIEs going online up about 40 percent since 2008
Health information exchanges seemed to be floundering for a while, but now they're picking up momentum, if a new survey is any indication. The number of HIEs that report being operational and Read more...
Study: CPOE adoption tougher than it looks
With the Joint Commission and CMS emphasizing the value of computerized physician order entry (CPOE), health IT managers and CIOs have started to plan rollouts. The thing is, they're likely to get Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Indiana brags about HIT accomplishments
The state of Indiana has launched a new effort promoting its ventures into health IT. Officials say that their state boasts one of the strongest health IT infrastructures in the U.S, including five Read more...
Study: Safety-net hospitals need health information exchange help
In theory, just about any facility can benefit from setting up a health information exchange with other local providers. In reality, however, some providers--notably safety-net hospitals--just don't Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: EMR market to hit $1.6B by 2013
With stimulus funds flowing and market pressure building, the market for EMRs is poised to expand dramatically, if not as quickly as people might have expected, according to a new study. Researchers Read more...
KLAS says health IT vendors don't offer enough support
A new report from KLAS gives health IT vendors bad grades when it comes to service and support, something that should make them quite nervous when providers are gearing up to spend those big stimulus Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: TX county using stimulus bucks to create jail EMR
While most states and counties seem to have their eye on hospitals clinics, Harris County, TX wants to use $6.2 million in federal stimulus funding on an EMR for the county's jail. To do so, however, Read more...
HIMSS defines 'meaningful use' of EMRs for Medicare incentives
So, soon providers will get incentives for putting EMRs into place--but as is usually the case, there's a catch. To get Medicare incentive payments, it's not enough to simply roll out the technology; Read more...
| Press ReleasesMerge Healthcare Announces the Addition of 11 Radiology Practices That Have Selected Merge RIS to Achieve Meaningful UseRadiologists drive Meaningful Use acceleration; create enterprise imaging foundation CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merge Healthcare (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading provider of enterprise imaging and Read more >> Crowell Systems Offers a 50% Discount on EMR and Practice Management Software -- Act NowCHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowell Systems Medformix® XXV v3 is a very powerful, all-encompassing software solution which includes Practice Management (PM) functionality and a Read more >> eCareSoft Delivers on Promise of Successful Stage 1 Attestation in 120 Days or LessAUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- eCareSoft announced successful Stage 1 Attestations of Meaningful Use for Central Texas Hospital System (CTH) today. Using eCareSoft's true-cloud EHR Read more >> Medsphere Enhances OpenVista® EHR System for Meaningful UseNew features, functions make open-source system more flexible, enabling hospitals to rapidly meet federal incentive requirements SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Medsphere Systems Corporation, a pioneer Read more >> eCareSoft Drives Hospital Visibility to Stimulus Funds With Meaningful Use Scorecard™AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- eCareSoft, Inc., a leader in cloud technology solutions for hospitals, announced the industry's first Meaningful Use monitoring and tracking tool tied to Read more >> |
