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Leaders at the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) announced Tuesday they have published a free business associate agreement to help providers comply with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
Bernie Monegain, editor of Healthcare IT News, interviews William Spooner, senior vice president and CIO of Sharp HealthCare, located in San Diego.
It’s been nearly two years since I wrote a note, like this one, to appear here, in the opinion pages of Healthcare IT News.
Talk about creating buzz. Just utter the words “meaningful use” and you’ll get an earful. Now that the proposed rules are out, there is hardly anyone in healthcare who does not have something to say about it.
Most hospitals have got quite a ways to go to achieve the stage 3 (nee 2015) goals for meaningful use, but most are on the right track.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, GE Healthcare is playing an important role, offering what it says is the "most comprehensive IT solution for healthcare support" in the history of the games.
The European Patients Forum (EPF), an organization of patient coalitions, recently launched a new website aimed at providing immediate access to health information for patients and patient advocacy groups.
The White House on Friday called for the creation of a government-wide task force to strengthen coordination of healthcare IT among federal agencies that hold key roles in carrying out the administration's plans for a digital healthcare system.
Proposal would give White House and health agency execs seats at national coordinator's planning table.