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Twenty-eight awards made to fund 'elbow-to-elbow' assistance to providers setting up health IT systems.
Patient engagement should be a critical piece of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, public comment on a draft framework indicates.
Premier healthcare alliance has launched a new meaningful use best-practices library to help hospitals effectively implement electronic health records and earn Medicare and Medicaid bonuses.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday awards for more than $267 million to 28 non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers.
Health IT Policy Committee recommends vendors use labels to clarify products are certified for first stage of meaningful use.
Even as providers work to update their security environments, hospital data continues to be at serious risk, according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics.
The Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is poised to lead a multi-university consortium of researchers to create technology that will make electronic health record systems and health data exchange secure enough to gain the confidence of doctors and patients.
Although a new study finds "uneven" effort being applied to implementing clinical decision support in CPOE, some hospitals are setting the bar for its use, and this is good news that should not be overlooked, says one of the authors of the study.
Colleges will train health IT workforce, a key to making meaningful use of electronic health records a reality.
Kinetic Muscles, Inc. (KMI), a provider of neurorehabilitation technology and rehabilitation products for stroke, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury patients, has received a two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to study a new treatment for military veterans returning from war with traumatic brain injury (TBI).