Government & Policy
Policymakers must scope out second stage incentives to give vendors enough time to update EHR systems.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides 90 percent match to help states administer incentive payments to Medicaid providers.
Grants will focus on enabling care coordination for patients with complex and chronic conditions.
Veterans Affairs is adding more complex health records that can be retrieved with the click of a button, says top tech officer.
This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care.
Grants will go to 46 regional health IT extension centers to support EHRs in small critical care hospitals.
A condition of recent House legislation would require states to make their prescription drug monitoring systems interoperable.
Survey finds most physicians use their own mobile devices in their practices even if they are not supported by IT staff.
Health & Human Services unveils Website in Spanish to connect consumers to resources for accessing health care coverage.
Early survey of health IT regional extension centers shows them slowly starting to market tech services to providers.