Health IT Pulse
March 2010
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Why the ONC can't endorse a particular EHR vendor
- Senior News Writer 31 Mar 2010 -
Stage 2 meaningful use criteria already in the crosshairs
- Features and E-Zine Editor 30 Mar 2010 -
What the health reform bill means for health IT
- TechTarget 29 Mar 2010
After Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, delivered the Tuesday keynote at last week's IEEE-AMA conference on personalized medicine in Washington, D.C., an ...
Stage 1 meaningful use requirements aren't yet finalized, but policymakers and industry stakeholders are already turning their eyes to what might be coming down the pike for Stage 2. By 2012, ...
Last week's signing into law of the historic health reform bill is expected to affect all hospital departments -- and IT is no exception. In the days since its signing, many bloggers have ...
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NHIN Direct to help providers exchange health information
- Senior Multimedia Producer 25 Mar 2010 -
EHR implementation a foregone conclusion, ONC says
- Senior News Writer 24 Mar 2010 -
CCHIT certification revamp announced -- but you already knew that
- TechTarget 23 Mar 2010 -
Learning what it takes to undergo an EHR implementation
- Features and E-Zine Editor 23 Mar 2010 -
Will meaningful use rules leave rural doctors vulnerable?
- TechTarget 22 Mar 2010 -
Of sports cars and meaningful use
- Features and E-Zine Editor 18 Mar 2010 -
House members seek revision of meaningful use requirements
- Senior Multimedia Producer 18 Mar 2010
As the deadlines to receive American Recovery and Reinvestment Act incentive payments draw ever closer, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is eager to ...
In addition to addressing health care reform, Dr. David Blumenthal, the national coordinator for health IT, took some time during his keynote at the First AMA-IEEE Medical Technology Conference on ...
Today, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology issued a press release announcing the April 7 reopening of the CCHIT certification process and the formal separation of the ...
Like the path to true love, the course to true electronic health records (EHR) never does run smooth: This is the realization that dawns on providers some time after they begin the implementation ...
On the final day of the comment period for federal meaningful use rules regarding electronic health record (EHR) technology, a group of more than 90 federal and state medical societies wrote to the ...
What do Ferraris and health information technology have in common? Both need a good support network if they're going to provide any meaningful use, according to Marc Probst, vice president and ...
Earlier this week, more than 200 members of Congress submitted a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging them to modify the meaningful use requirements proposed late ...
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SNOMED: Privately owned public standard
- Senior News Writer 17 Mar 2010 -
Blueprints tell what states will do to roll out health information exchange
- Features and E-Zine Editor 16 Mar 2010 -
Thoughts on meaningful use criteria, EHR certification
- TechTarget 15 Mar 2010 -
Shedding light on patient engagement
- Features and E-Zine Editor 12 Mar 2010 -
Calculate the ROI of meaningful use
- Features and E-Zine Editor 11 Mar 2010
In researching a story about how U.S. health care providers will be comingling the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) insurance billing codes ...
States that received funding through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program are responsible for ...
Today marks the end of the public comment period for the proposed meaningful use criteria drafted late last year by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the ...
Data transparency and patient engagement are the name of the game for a workgroup preparing its latest round of recommendations for the federal Health IT Policy Committee. Deliberating the ...
As providers analyze how prepared they are to meet the meaningful use criteria proposed by the federal government, they also are wondering just what’s in it for them. The government is dangling ...