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Grant awards designed to help administration meet goal to help 100,000 providers digitize their practices and clinical processes.
Four small hospitals band together to set-up health information exchange in time to apply for incentive funds under the stimulus plan.
Senate pares down version of bill that would have made hospital-based outpatient physicians eligible for HIT incentive funds.
NaviNet, the country's largest real-time healthcare communications network, will partner with major health insurers in New Jersey for a pilot program in which a multi-payer portal will serve as a "one-stop shop" for physicians in the state to communicate directly with an array of health plans.
Northern Kentucky University is offering two new certificate programs aimed at unemployed professionals, one of which will focus on equipping individuals with computer skills for the healthcare industry.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced Friday nearly $1 billion in grant awards for regional extension center, health information exchange and healthcare IT training.
Senate Finance committee jobs bill expands the types of physicians who can qualify for meaningful use incentives.
Implementing a computerized physicians order entry system poses multiple challenges, with physician engagement at the top of the list.
Extension center contractors will be held to account for helping providers past the hurdles of 'meaningful use'.
Stressing the benefits of early action - and illustrating just how much farther ahead in adoption Massachusetts is than many other parts of the country - two significant local users of healthcare IT offered insights from their experiences in Boston on Tuesday.