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'Connect' software update will offer cloud-based options for setting up health information exchange services.
For all the excited talk about the potential for IT to transform the healthcare industry for the better, many doctors are skeptical about the future, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of online practice management and EMR tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
Kathy Mechler, COO and co-director of the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) Rural and Community Health Institute (RCHI), a resource for physicians and healthcare facilities operating in rural areas, shares how the institute is using technology to improve the peer review process, in a Q&A with Healthcare IT News.
A new report finds that adults living with chronic diseases are less likely to have access to the Internet, but are also more likely to use social media as a tool for coping with their condition.
Drug agency's Interim Final Rule adds technology twist to acceptable methods for authenticating e-prescription orders.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Federal Register made the DEA's Interim Final Rule on electronic prescribing of controlled substances available for public inspection.
Colorado is one of six states that will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Office of the National Coordinator plans to release in the next two months a set of draft standards for "NHIN Direct," an abridged set of specifications for the National Health Information Network that would give providers a simple way to exchange health information securely over the Internet.
ONC must develop specs for secure transport service so small providers can qualify for meaningful use incentives by 2011.
The building of insurance exchanges, quality measures reporting and long-term care dependent on IT investment.