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HIT standards proposed by the national coordinator designed to spur adoption at the outset of the incentive plan; fine tune later.
Grassley wants to resolve complaints about health IT vendors before administration rolls out $19 billion in stimulus funds.
Vanguard Health Systems will soon offer a personal health record to its employees.
Close on the heels of a letter sent to several IT infrastructure companies this past fall, in which he investigated “complaints and/or concerns” he’d received about electronic medical records, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has issued another missive to 31 American hospitals.
Nonprofit Cal-REC is expecting this week a notice of intent to be funded as a Regional Extension Center (REC) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Health IT Extension Program, the interim executive director told attendees at the Regional Healthcare Stimulus Exchange Conference here on Jan. 19.
Public comments will play a major role in defining meaningful use of healthcare IT, according to federal officials.
The Military Health System is using new IT tools to guide capital planning, one way it hopes to avoid a future health facilities crisis.
DOD's first strategic health IT plan in a decade stresses "rapid, responsive, reliable" delivery of new services.
Remember those fighting for their lives --- and health records.
The commission will update its full and modular EHR certification programs to conform to new federal meaningful use standards.