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Eleven healthcare organizations in New York State will receive a total $109 million in state grants to improve the coordination of healthcare through the use of health information technology.
Grants will go to 46 regional health IT extension centers to support EHRs in small critical care hospitals.
CIOs appear cautiously optimistic about their chances for achieving stimulus funding under the HITECH Act, according to a new poll from the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME).
A condition of recent House legislation would require states to make their prescription drug monitoring systems interoperable.
Critical access and rural hospitals will benefit from nearly $20 million in new technical support assistance to help them convert from paper-based medical records to certified electronic health record technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Friday.
Cerner is partnering with the Ottawa Hospital and two other members of the Eastern Ontario Regional Laboratory Association (EORLA) - the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Cornwall Community Hospital - to help implement an enhanced automated lab system that will connect the three laboratories to local hospitals.
Pitt Community College, one of the five institutions across the country that is leading a regional consortium of community colleges to train thousands of new health information technology professionals, is set to begin classes this month.
South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Mass., which reported in July that back-up patient data for approximately 800,000 individuals went missing, has completed its investigation. In light of the findings, officials said they would no longer send out individual notices, instead publishing them on organizations' websites, and in offices and in state newspapers.
Most health IT Regional Extension Centers, funded by the federal government to jump start the adoption of EHRs by physicians in solo and small practices, remain in the planning phase, according to a new survey by eHealth Initiative.
The Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center (GCREC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) opened its enrollment period for eligible practitioners this week. The goal is to get 2,855 eligible primary healthcare providers in the south region of Texas on board with an EHR in the first year and ensure they're using them in a meaningful way by 2012.