Health IT Pulse
Health care IT management and organization
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Workgroup focuses on quality measures for Stage 2 of meaningful use
- Features and E-Zine Editor 30 Nov 2010 -
Small hospitals bypassing traditional clinical information systems
- TechTarget 29 Nov 2010 -
EHR incentive program lets providers track payment status online
- Senior Multimedia Producer 26 Nov 2010
Policymakers will be asking developers in the health care community for help in crafting quality measurements to be used in Stage 2 of the meaningful use program. The Quality Measures Workgroup of ...
Small hospitals are eschewing traditional clinical information systems and favoring the larger players in the electronic health record (EHR) market, a recent research report from KLAS Enterprises ...
Health care providers looking to obtain financial incentives for demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health records have to jump through a few hoops to get money from the EHR incentive ...
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Critical access hospitals need clarity on meaningful use
- TechTarget 24 Nov 2010 -
Liability and EHRs: How electronic information changes legal landscape
- Features and E-Zine Editor 23 Nov 2010 -
EHR systems can cut health care costs, GAO reports
- Senior News Writer 22 Nov 2010 -
Free medical identity credentials may ease health information exchange
- Senior Multimedia Producer 19 Nov 2010 -
The pros and cons of Epic's growth for EHR systems
- Senior News Writer 17 Nov 2010 -
Hospitals on track to meet meaningful use criteria, according to HIMSS
- Features and E-Zine Editor 16 Nov 2010 -
CCHIT launching custom EHR certification program for hospitals
- TechTarget 15 Nov 2010
Once critical access hospitals become meaningful users of electronic health record systems, the money they will receive from the EHR Incentive Program will be calculated differently than it is for ...
How will electronic health records change the legal landscape for physicians? Recent studies suggest they will indeed have an effect even if stakeholders are still unsure about how. And with such ...
In a new report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) took a look at electronic health records (EHRs) as they relate to improving health care and cutting costs. It examines the stories of 15 ...
Earlier this year, Verizon Business introduced its cloud-based health information exchange (HIE), a service that allows physicians and other health care providers to store, manage and exchange ...
A recent WTN News report runs down some epic growth stats for electronic health record (EHR) systems vendor Epic Systems Corp. in Verona, Wis. The company continues to expand rapidly in an economy ...
Hospitals are ready to meet some of the meaningful use requirements under the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program (EHRIP), and they expect to make more progress over the next year, according ...
Many U.S. hospitals have spent years developing and maintaining custom electronic health record (EHR) systems. For those facilities, the prospect of receiving HITECH Act incentive payments, which ...
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How to bring electronic health records into the exam room
- Senior Multimedia Producer 12 Nov 2010 -
U.S. docs: Suck it up and take a few EHR implementation cues from abroad
- Senior News Writer 11 Nov 2010 -
Health IT still moving at a snail's pace, rules too burdensome
- Features and E-Zine Editor 09 Nov 2010 -
MHealth and texting takes health care to new dimensions -- with risks
- Editorial Director 09 Nov 2010 -
For mobile health applications, the sky's the limit
- TechTarget 08 Nov 2010
One of the most common complaints heard about the use of electronic health records (EHRs), is that clinicians don't know how to successfully interact with both patient and computer in the exam ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Chatting with health IT leaders from such developing countries as Tanzania, Nigeria and Lesotho -- and with the people in the U.S. public sector doing their best to assist them ...
Technology's transformation of health care is moving too slowly, despite all the attention being paid to encouraging the adoption of electronic health records, according to former U.S. House ...
Mobile health, or mHealth, is becoming an important way for providers to reach their patients, and vice versa. Here at the mHealth Summit 2010 in Washington, D.C., several discussions, sessions, ...
Hardly a day goes by without a report about one or more mobile health applications promising to improve patient care. One of the latest comes from the Mill City in Massachusetts, where Lowell ...