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Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued its interim final rule for meaningful use, health information technology standards, and certification criteria and implementation specifications for electronic health record incentive payments.
A recent story in the New York Times about “Web coupons” tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered one of the last nails into the coffin of online "privacy". In case you are naïve enough to imagine you have any privacy at all online – this story proves you have none.
It was a stroke of genius and practicality at once that created the health information technology extension program.
As a resident in obstetrics and gynecology I am exposed to a number of different clinical situations. We take care of patients in the outpatient setting, in the emergency room, on the labor floor and in the operating room. Regardless of where we are caring for our patients, documentation is a large part of daily clinical responsibilities.
Editor Bernie Monegain speaks with Karen Bell, MD, the newly-appointed chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology.
The Psilos Group, a healthcare venture capital firm, has spotlighted information and medical technology as critical to healthcare reform, insisting that expanded adoption and investment activity in IT will produce big results.
Vidyo, Inc., is giving healthcare executives something to talk about as they head to San Antonio for next week’s American Telemedicine Association conference.
The key to healthcare reform, say some experts, lies in collaboration. But how does one get hospitals and physicians to work with each other? Some physicians at the Health Technology Transformation Spring Summit say hospitals "don't want to play."
New legislation is expected to speed development of a statewide health information exchange in Wisconsin.
Administration wants to help create trusted means to move healthcare and other business transactions onto the Internet.