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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced 40 percent more funding to support states in streamlining and upgrading their Medicaid eligibility systems and health information exchanges.
Funds to help states build insurance exchanges to enroll people qualifying for Medicaid, children's health and other reduced cost plans.
CMS wants industry help to come up with technical descriptions to ease reporting of electronic quality measures.
As part of an effort to build and sustain a top-notch healthcare IT workforce in Georgia, leaders from the public and private sector have organized the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Leadership Summit.
The Office of the National Coordinator has asked the public to comment about privacy and security concerns associated with the use of electronic personal health record systems and tools.
A survey conducted by Emerson Network Power on IT and facility issues inside hospitals has shown that budget, power requirements and availability are top concerns - and that, given the mission-critical nature of healthcare IT, hospitals are increasingly dependent on technology to operate and serve patients.
Huron Consulting Group has acquired Click Commerce, a Beaverton, Ore.-based provider of technology and professional services to academic medical centers and research institutions. Huron hopes the purchase will bolster its higher education and healthcare research technology portfolio for clients.
Although the Internet age has improved American lives in many areas, researchers writing in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics say healthcare still lags behind. Use of a personal health record portal offers potential to gain ground - particularly in chronic disease management.
As executive director of the Nebraska Health Information Exchange (NeHII), Deborah Bass knows what it takes to get a health information exchange (HIE) up and running successfully.
The Medical University of South Carolina's enterprise data warehouse is helping the academic medical center reduce chart abstraction time for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) measures.